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Tom's comment about contracts being won by the cheapest bidder, reminded me of something I read in the papers last month about the Apollo missions. One of the astronauts (I forget which one, Lovell or Borman?) was asked what he was thinking when he was strapped in the capsule, and as the countdown neared "Zero, we have lift off." His answer spoke volumes when he said, "All I am thinking at that moment is that everything behind me was built or supplied by the lowest bidder."
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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