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I can't help but think their slow and steady wins the race philosophy has led to their stagnation. Blue Origin's motto is "Gradatim Ferociter", Latin for "Step
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
I can't help but think their slow and steady wins the race philosophy has led to their stagnation. Blue Origin's motto is "Gradatim Ferociter", Latin for "Step by Step, Ferociously". And I suspect having Jeff Bezos's massive hoard of cash takes away some of the pressure to perform or perish.
- raister 5y agoI don't want to be 'that guy', but a slight better translation is "Ferociously gradual".
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI just pulled it from an article on Wikipedia. I speak no Latin.
- freshair 5y ago> slow and steady wins the race It's a popular saying but a lot of people don't seem to recall the parable. A slow and steady tortoise only wins the race if the rabbit sprints a little bit but then gets too cocky and decides to take a nap and rest for a while (or gets stuck for some other reason.) If the fast rabbit keeps moving forward unrelentingly, then the slow tortoise doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell. So far, SpaceX has been a rabbit that doesn't stop to take breaks. In scenarios like this, "slow and steady" becomes little more than a lame excuse for moving slow, not a legitimate plan to get ahead.
- philwelch 5y agoI actually don’t think Blue’s process has actually followed their motto though. Building a reusable Saturn V-class rocket as your first orbital vehicle is not “step by step”. Step by step is how I’d describe the process for Starship; the first prototypes looked suspiciously like stainless steel grain silos, and their development progress is measured by how much they can do with the thing before it blows up.