Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters Quotes

“Imperfect human beings working under pressure allow urgency to crowd out or overshadow matters that turn out to be of great importance, or the importance of little things is forgotten as we try to bring great projects to fruition.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“kings, generals, and presidents tend to make their biggest mistakes immediately following their greatest victories.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“was once again as if some demonic force had intervened, protecting Hitler and thus allowing him to carry on his work of destruction. Had Hitler been killed in early 1943, it is likely (though we can of course not know for certain) that the Army would have overpowered the Nazis and the SS and then installed a civilian regime that would have ended the war.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“Looking back on his life, one is hard pressed not to conclude that some demonic power, perhaps the Devil himself, protected Hitler again and again, allowing the Nazi dictator to wreak havoc upon the world.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“Upon examination it was clear that all two hundred names were in the same handwriting. They were also in alphabetical order.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“Hitler’s became the largest in Germany, and in 1933 he was appointed chancellor of the Reich.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“If you ever resort to violence there is one thing that you must never do and that is to lose.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“If you ever resort to violence there is one thing that you must never do and that is to lose. — Dwight David Eisenhower”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“Why assume a conspiracy when simple incompetence is the answer?”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“it, “All new states are infested more or less by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures. But Texas was absolutely over run by such men.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

“But when a presidential election is upended by a blunder committed by a minor local official, then perhaps the time has come to forego federalism in this one respect simply to protect the national interest.”
― Jared Knott, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever