Sergey Akhromeyev quotes

“We are not pursuing research to develop ABM space systems. There are studies to improve systems of warning against a missile attack, communications and navigation systems and to develop ground-based ABM defences.”
-- Sergey Akhromeyev

Source : The Daily Review, 1965.

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“If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.”
-- Sergey Akhromeyev

Source : UPI (Moscow) press release on Soviet reaction to the Strategic Defense Initiative, "Daily Record" Newspaper, August 1986.

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“Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.”
-- Sergey Akhromeyev

Source : "Mr. Darman's Sermon". The New York Times, July 29, 1989.

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“If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.”
-- Sergey Akhromeyev

Source : "A No-Frills Summit". "TIME" Magazine, November 9, 1987.

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“The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.”
-- Sergey Akhromeyev

Source : "Iraq Rebuffs Iran on Peace Initiative". The Washington Post, (p. A01), February 11, 1991.

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“I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.”

“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

“In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.”

“I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.”

“I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.”

“Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.”

“I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.”

“It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.”

Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

“Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.”