Inherent in the System/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror.
—JC Denton, Deus Ex

If you read up on the challenger disaster, it is pretty obvious that the people making the decisions were just stupid, and engineers under them were markedly smarter. Mulloy simply did not understand Lund’s presentation. And because the bosses were just too dimwitted, the space shuttle fell out of the sky. Further, the reason Lund was low status and Mulloy was high status is because Mulloy was stupid enough to fit in with the elite, while Lund was just too smart to fit in.

— James A. Donald, Technological decay
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