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Невил Шют Норвей — английский писатель и авиаинженер. Для публикации своих произведений выбрал криптонимом свои имена — Невил Шют — для избежания возможных негативных последствий для инженерной карьеры. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Январь 1899 – 12. Январь 1960
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“It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.”

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Nevil Shute

Of the R100 engineers
Slide Rule, p. 66

“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”

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Nevil Shute книга Round the Bend

Источник: Round the Bend

“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”

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Nevil Shute книга On the Beach

Источник: On the Beach

“Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.”

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Nevil Shute книга Stephen Morris

Rawdon, the aircraft designer, to Morris, his aspiring protege.
Stephen Morris, ch. 3, p. 41 (1923, published posthumously in 1961)

“He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.”

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Nevil Shute

Of Stephen Morris
Pilotage, ch. 5, p. 203