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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell
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“There’s a hundred thousand reasons why I designed that part that way. And none of it is your damn business.” So that’s how he treated all his employees. He was truly an Old Man Dynamite.
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A machine gun facing forward, synchronized to fire through the propeller.
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Well, he would tell you that only God invents; humans discover. So for him, it was not “genius.” He would have refused to accept that term. He would not appreciate it, would not accept anyone calling him a genius. He would say he’s just one who discovers the greatness of God, the creations of God; that God reveals truths through people who are willing to work hard and to use their minds to discover God’s truths.
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The more you invest in a set of beliefs—the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don’t give up. You double down.
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In the entryway to his house, he hung a reminder from his first real encounter with the orthodoxy of the Bomber Mafia, a reminder of failure and loss.
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He’s a doer. As he put it much later: “I’d rather have somebody who is real stupid but did something—even if it’s wrong he did something—than have somebody who’d vacillate and do nothing.”
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The dreams of revolutionaries go awry when they are forced to confront an unanticipated obstacle—not a rational obstacle such as inexperience or haste or miscalculation, but something immovable.
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