The Cost of New
February 17, 2009 • 1:22 am • POSTED BY Jim Walls“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.”
Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., former Grumman president, discussing the design of the Grumman lunar module that landed NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.
“Fly Me to the Moon: An Interview with Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.”
Technology Review, 97:5, July, 1994, Page 62.
hmmm…i can only wonder what departments you might be hoping to inspire with this quote?
I can apply this logic to rebuilding a recently purchased 1969 Honda Trail motorcycle. The argument can be made with my girlfriend as to the true estimated cost of the project ahead.