Origins Quotes

“Command responsibility sometimes meant having to make decisions based on incomplete information. ”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins

“At some point in every officer’s career he needs to decide if he is a chicken or a pig when it comes to breakfast.” Tomal’s bright smile quickly morphed into a pinched expression, “You must still be out of it, sir.  You’re talking gibberish.” Hastelloy let out a loud laugh.  “Not at all.  You see the chicken is involved in a breakfast by providing the eggs, but a pig is committed to the meal by providing the bacon and ham.”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins

“chewed his ear off. ”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins

“The United States was not always on top.  In fact prior to World War II, the country barely cracked the top thirty list of most influential nations on the globe.  Most people attributed the nation’s rise to developing the atomic bomb first.  That technological advantage lasted a grand total of four short years; a relative flash in the pan.  Ascension from obscurity to superpower took a sustained technological edge for decades that the rest of the world was powerless to match.  NASA provided that edge. Computers, integrated circuit boards, metallic alloys, heat shielding, fiber optics, Kevlar, nylon, and the ability to place satellites in orbit all came into commercial use after first being perfected by NASA to serve their needs.  Even the program’s failures and useless passion projects, like studying the dust particles trailing behind a comet, led to new materials, new software, better propulsion systems, and the list went on and on. ”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins

“You can never have too many backup plans, even bad ones,”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins

“It was truly amazing observing how quickly the aristocracy in a society could lose touch with realities the common people dealt with on a daily basis.”
― Mark Henrikson, Origins