Wasting a crisis!

In my early secondary school years, my father would bring books home, every now and then. One of the books was on the construction of the Hoover Dam in the USA. Fascinated by the book title, I struggled, against severe limitations, to comprehend the story about the monumental engineering feat. I only understood a small fraction of it - just enough to keep me interested until the last page. I recall though, that there was substantial deference to mistakes that were made during its construction as well as the tremendous engineering solutions quickly devised in the face of every unforeseen challenge.

But I remember, poignantly, one line in probably the closing chapter of the book, and it has stayed with me since: “of course building a dam, is more difficult than talking about it”.