“The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.”
Sergei Biriuzov (1904–1964) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "Military Deception and Strategic Surprise" - by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter - 1982
“I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth satellites, supersonic flight, and now this.”
Hélène Delambre
The Fly (1958)
Context: I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth satellites, supersonic flight, and now this. It's not so much who invents them. It's the fact they exist. … Everything's going so fast, I'm just not ready to take it all in. It's, it's all so quick
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