[Info-vax] [OT] Al shepard (was Re: Rumor of EMC shopping itself to hp)

[Norm Raphael]

 >On 09/24/14, David Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
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>The thing is, (I'm going to blame the bean counters), there are those 
>who don't know the difference, and only see the different costs. So 
>they insist on the cheapest solution. Thus, the "good stuff" doesn't 
>sell, therefore doesn't get developed and marketed.
>
>One of my favorite quotes is "when you're sitting in the space shuttle 
>ready to lift off, be comforted to know that everything under you was 
>procured on a low bid basis".
>
>:-)

According to Gene Kranz in his book, Failure Is Not an Option, 
"When reporters asked Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the 
Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, 'The fact that every 
part of this ship was built by the low bidder.'"

 Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy