RickoverQuotes
@RickoverQuotes
The sayings of Hyman G Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy. Run by @charlesxjyang
Huge congrats to @DeptofDefense for aligning the offices, funding lines, and authorities to make this deal happen. Now the hard part: 10+ years of implementation and project management by DOD, which will determine whether this project fails or suceeds My one piece of advice…
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Government without politics is like conception without sex (paraphrasing former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal)
Rickover on lawyers Speaking to the New York Patent Law Association, 1979
Admiral Hyman Rickover explains the design of the USS Nautilus, the world's first ever nuclear powered submarine July 8, 1952
The initial DARC expedition to scan the unpublished Rickover papers in Annapolis last week had a wildly good result, yielding ~2000 pages of speeches, transcripts, and testimony. We're working with @charlesxjyang to do an open release of the full archive later this summer.
Rickover understood (November, 1979)
Digitize *all* Rickover materials!
DARC is thrilled to be sponsoring @charlesxjyang's effort to scan the unpublished papers of Hyman Rickover held at the Nimitz Library in Annapolis. We are officially underway as of this week. These will be getting a release in batches online in the coming months. Stay tuned.
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The academic-reactor designer is a dilettante. He has not had to assume any real responsibility in connection with his projects. He is free to luxuriate in elegant ideas, the practical shortcomings of which can be relegated to the category of “mere technical details.”