Challenger Quote by Steven Magee

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a…

— Sally Ride

“That’s the problem with engineers: when they can’t get something working, they always blame the previous group of engineers, and you never know which…

— Robert Kroese

“...when it came to explosives and radios, bad things sometimes happened to good engineers.”

— James Rollins

“Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.”

— Eraldo Banovac

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

— Henry Petroski

“The misfortune of the world is that people who are too incompetent to be managers even in an apartment block come to the top…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“we really fucked up the engineering on this”

— Walter Isaacson

“Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.”

— Liz Weber

“Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.”

— Donella H. Meadows

“Understand that a great manager is essentially an organizational engineer.”

— Ray Dalio

“I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough