In Wings of Fire -- A.P.J Abdul Kalam wrote:
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, “Those things that hurt instruct!” I realized that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them. A beautiful quote: For all your days prepare And meet them ever alike When you are the anvil, bear- When you are the hammer, strike. Bread baked without love is bitter bread that feeds but half a man’s hunger. -Khalil Gibran An Incident which reflects the great leadership quality of Prof Sarabhai… Once Prof Sarabhai visited Thumba, at that time there was an ongoing development project on surface to air missile. Team thought to show some development to Prof and asked him to operate the timer circuit to activate the nose-cone jettisoning. When Prof pressed the timer it didn’t worked, team was disappointed and tried to demonstrate it through direct connection to pyros instead of using timer. It did work this time. After this whol...