Ben Bernanke Quotes
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
Bernanke, Ben S. "The Ten Suggestions." Princeton University Baccalaureate Address, Princeton, NJ, 2 June 2013.
Burns phrase “mice an’ men” is later used as the title of John Steinbeck’s novel – Of Mice and Men, 1939.
SAC is responsible for all the ground based intercontinental nuclear missiles and the airborne nuclear bombers. There has been a very low tolerance for error as the dangers were so high. None the less, there have been a number of serious failures over the years but the nuclear and other damage has not been catastrophic.
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chair, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chair, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.
