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Article #7303Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
From: Gary Coffman
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:09
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:09
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In article <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes: > >Of course, the Rogers Commission, headed by a State Department >carreer bureaucrat with no knowledge of engineering or technology, >didn't say that. Instead, they blamed NASA -- as you blame NASA -- >for being too "success oriented" (!) because somewhere along the >line, someone, somewhere actually took a chance to get the thing >to work. Yeah, a management asshole said fuck the temperature, screw the engineers who say don't launch when it's this cold, we're listening to Edward V. Wright and taking a chance. God are you an idiot. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure Message-ID: <1993Jan7.080918.1849@ke4zv.uucp> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725659270@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.164516.10926@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:09:18 GMT Lines: 20