1961, Speech to Special Joint Session of Congress
Context: This decision demands a major national commitment of scientific and technical manpower, materiel and facilities, and the possibility of their diversion from other important activities where they are already thinly spread. It means a degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel. New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. They could in fact, aggravate them further — unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
“Over time, every way of thinking generates important problems that it cannot solve.”
Source: 1990s, Re-Creating the Corporation (1999), p. 3. Opening sentence.
On "eyeing" for Mars, IAC 2016 meeting, presentation on sustainable Mars colonization.
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”
on his blackboard at the time of death in February 1988; from a photo in the Caltech archives http://archives.caltech.edu/pictures/1.10-29.jpg
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation. ”
Matt Drudge, on reaching one billion page views http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/11/12/20021112_180331.htm (December 11, 2002)
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
Cricketers get heroes welcome The Himalayan Times; February 2018 https://thehimalayantimes.com/sports/cricketers-get-heroes-welcome/
