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The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.
Amelia Earhart Last Flight · 1937

Quotes

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard Feynman · Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle, 1986 · Primary source

“There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.”

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, 1948-1953 · Primary source

“There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.”

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, 1948-1953 · Primary source

“We took advantage of a theory of our own, that the impossible place is usually the least well defended.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

Works

Richard Feynman · 1986
Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle

An examination of Space Shuttle reliability, safety estimates, engineering practices and organisational decisions following the Challenger disaster.

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