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that you can perform, the more funds you get, the more people you can hire, 

 the more solid an organization you can build, the more results you can produce, 

 provided you don't make the kind of error that some of the other Navy 

 laboratories made. They played a great deal of "scientist versus naval officer." 

 That is not any way to build an organization which gets its bread and butter 

 from the Navy. 



We always took the attitude that the Fleet was, after all, our customer, and if 

 you are going to stay in business, you'd better worry about and respect your 

 customer. If you despise your customer, you cannot possibly succeed. You'd 

 better find another business to go into. 



