All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
You can’t trust cost-benefit analyses… agencies have a history of fudging their studies to make proposed projects to look better, understating the costs and overstating the benefits.
The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.
I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.
It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that [military weapons] projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor.
We build roads and they cost two and three and four times what they're supposed to cost.
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
