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Dear Admiral Rickover, If you want to stop killing people, read this. Very respectfully, Dave Oliver Captain, US Navy
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Dave Oliver (Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy)
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Uneducated citizens are potentially as dangerous to the proper functioning of our democratic institutions as are uneducated workers when they handle complicated machinery.
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Hyman George Rickover (The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words)
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The devil is in the details,” the great admiral Hyman Rickover used to say, “but so is salvation.
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Ryan Holiday (Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series))
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that I had been selected to receive an award known as the Medaglia de Grifone, or Christopher Columbus medal, given every year for “outstanding contributions to sea travel.” Admiral Rickover had been the recipient just the year before. Bonny and I traveled to Genoa, Italy, the birthplace and boyhood home of Columbus. On October 12, 1958, Columbus Day, we attended the black-tie awards ceremony. I accepted on behalf of everyone on board Nautilus and emphasized that “no dramatic development in the history of modern man would be possible without the labor and genius of those who have gone before
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William R. Anderson (The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission)
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Through concentrating on a specialty too early in life, a man becomes a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding for, and a lively feeling for values. Otherwise, with his specialized knowledge, he more closely resembles a well-trained
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Hyman George Rickover (The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words)
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The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.
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Bernd Heinrich (A Year in the Maine Woods)
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It is necessary to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. ADMIRAL HYMAN G. RICKOVER
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Frank Hauser (Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair)
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Admiral Hyman Rickover pushed his passion for a nuclear-powered submarine as hard as he could without being formally charged with criminal intent, and he was rewarded with one of the most successful projects in the history of engineering. His finished prototype submarine, the USS Nautilus, was all that he had hoped. First put to sea at 11:00 a.m. on January 17, 1955, she broke every existing record of submersible boat performance, made all anti-submarine tactics obsolete, and never endangered a crew member.
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James Maheffey (Atomic Accidents)
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover, American admiral (1900–1986)
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Jurgen Appelo (#Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients (Management 3.0))