"NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation."

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Source : "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

Burt Rutan

#Risk Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Aversion Quotes

“I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.”
“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.”
“To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.”
“WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD.”
“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.”
“The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.”
“If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.”
“It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks”

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