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> without cost overruns That's downright un-American! I love hearing stories about him. One that I have heard, a couple of times, is that a salesgoblin went i
by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
> without cost overruns
That's downright un-American!
I love hearing stories about him. One that I have heard, a couple of times, is that a salesgoblin went into his second-floor office at the Pentagon, with a sample of some electronic equipment.
Rickover is said to have grabbed the device, walked over to his window, and dropped it to the ground beneath. He then said something along the lines of "If it still works, we can talk."
- thijson 2y agoThat's kind of along the lines of something I heard that Steve Jobs did to the iPhone prototype. He threw it in the fish tank and said, all those bubbles are wasted space. Could be this is an urban legend though.
- nradov 2y agoI heard the same story about a Japanese consumer electronics executive with a prototype of the first compact video camera.