X-Message-Number: 5629
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 23:00:15 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Feynman quote

In #5618, Garret Smyth <> writes:
> I don't have my copies of the Richard Feynman books to hand, but I
> remember being strongly affected by his comment on NASA's policy on
> space shuttle safety and public relations.  I'd be grateful if someone
> would post the exact quotation here.  It was something along the lines
> that if the truth is ignored in favour of public relations then we
> deserve what we get, (but expressed much better!).

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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