The Man In Charge Must

All Men Are By Nature Conservative But Conservatism In The Military Profession Is A Source Of Danger To The Country. One Must Be Ready To Change His Line Sharply And Suddenly, With No Concern For The Prejudices And Memories Of What Was Yesterday. To Rest Upon Formula Is A Slumber That, Prolonged, Means Death.

When Doing A Job — Any Job — One Must Feel That He Owns It, And Act As Though He Will Remain In That Job Forever.

It Troubles Me That We Are So Easily Pressured By Purveyors Of Technology Into Permitting So-called "progress" To Alter Our Lives Without Attempting To Control It-as If Technology Were An Irrepressible Force Of Nature To Which We Must Meekly Submit.

All New Ideas Begin In A Non-conforming Mind That Questions Some Tenet Of The Conventional Wisdom.

More Than Ambition, More Than Ability, It Is Rules That Limit Contribution; Rules Are The Lowest Common Denominator Of Human Behavior. They Are A Substitute For Rational Thought.