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Henry Spencer Quotes

C is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360 Picture Quote #1

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge Picture Quote #1

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn’t going to be much like flying an airplane Picture Quote #1

In the long run, it’s impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this Picture Quote #1

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing Picture Quote #1

Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time Picture Quote #1

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If your goal is to change the world, you can’t start by doing things the same old way because it sells better Picture Quote #1

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly Picture Quote #1

Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it’s hard to make it pay off - Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap Picture Quote #1

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent Picture Quote #1

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you’re trying to test Picture Quote #1

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic Picture Quote #1

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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats Picture Quote #1

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C is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360 (Henry Spencer Quotes) If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge (Henry Spencer Quotes) Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn’t going to be much like flying an airplane. (Henry Spencer Quotes) In the long run, it’s impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this. (Henry Spencer Quotes) SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing (Henry Spencer Quotes) Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time. (Henry Spencer Quotes) If your goal is to change the world, you can’t start by doing things the same old way because it sells better. (Henry Spencer Quotes) In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly. (Henry Spencer Quotes) Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it’s hard to make it pay off - Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap. (Henry Spencer Quotes) Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent. (Henry Spencer Quotes) One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you’re trying to test. (Henry Spencer Quotes) Belief is no substitute for arithmetic (Henry Spencer Quotes) To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats (Henry Spencer Quotes)