Talk:Hyman G. Rickover

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Mr President...

Would love to add the famous quote "Mr. President, that is bullshit!" As referenced by no less than President Carter Carter, Jimmy (2010). White House Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 492, 493. This was Rickover's response to President Reagan when Reagan removed him from his position in the Navy.

But I know that a lot of the people who come here are nuke sub guys, you guys consider Rickover your guy, so I'll leave the suggestion here and hang back.

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"You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself." - This quotation looks very much like this one:

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." Sam Levenson --Miss.hyper 19:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Editorial on the difference between paper reactors and real ones

Anyone out there have the original journal editorial on the difference between paper reactors and real ones?

Thanks in advance - UmptanumRedux 18:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced

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• At any moment during a twenty-four-hour day, only one-third of the people in the world are asleep. The other two-thirds are awake and creating problems.

• Fish don't vote!
  • On why submarines came to be named after cities and states rather than ocean fish.

• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

The "Fish don't vote" quote & citation is actually provided here: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/22/us/briefing-navy-reverts-to-fish.html --104.15.130.191 16:56, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

• Source for "responsibility is a unique concept" quote (not sure how to cite it): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearings/IcO0QpCJdQYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The%20Rickover%20Effect%20responsibility%20is%20a%20unique%20concept&pg=PA463&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22responsibility%20is%20a%20unique%20concept%22