WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg margin of error – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rickover, Hyman -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/rickover-hyman/6585/ https://wist.info/rickover-hyman/6585/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:45:05 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=6585 Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.

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Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]
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Quoted in Theodore Rockwell, The Rickover Effect, Part 4 "Upgrading Industry Quality (1955-1960)," "The Seawolf" (epigraph) (1992). Rockwell provides no citation, and I can find no other written source; it is likely a verbal catch phrase of Rickover's. ]]> https://wist.info/rickover-hyman/6585/feed/ 0 6585