"To err is human, to forgive is not [company] policy." #readingToday

General Curtis LeMay had created an institutional culture at the Strategic Air Command that showed absolutely no tolerance for mistakes. People were held accountable not only for their behavior but for their bad luck. "To err is human," everyone at the command had been told, "to forgive is not SAC policy."

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident,and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser