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+<h1>Quotes From Bill Wattenburg</h1>
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+<p>In response to a California state Senator asking his opinion of BART management:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>I’m still looking for the front end of the horse.</q>—<i>SF Chronicle,
+Nov. 19, 1973, p. 29 in Herb Caen’s column.</i></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">To the Maitre d’Hotel (while slipping him $20) after his date made him take back a bottle of
+wine—but one of many complaints:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>Take <i>her</i> away!</q>—<i>San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 19, 1974,
+p. 27, in Herb Caen’s column.</i></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">Describing BART General Manager Billy Stokes at a Commonwealth Club meeting:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>The extraction by some farmers of methane gas from manure piles is interesting,
+but how can you top a genius who is trying to run a subway system on pure bullshit?</q>—<i>San
+Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 29, 1974, p. 29, in Herb Caen’s column.</i></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">On why he hasn’t written more books:</strong></p>
+
+<blockquote><q>You can sometimes beat the pros at their own game once. But they don’t often let
+you get away with it a second time. It’s much easier to find another field.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">A favorite saying at the Nevada test site:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>A smart cowboy just wouldn’t work this hard to make things so goddamn
+difficult.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">In response to a fellow scientist asking if he had been in an accident:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>No, some women just like to make their cowboys jealous. I guess it makes him better
+in bed after she takes him home and patches him up.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">Describing the BART train control system in the 1970s:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>…the world’s most expensive, computer-controlled, track-mounted
+pinball machine.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">On why it was so easy for him to find a easy, reliable way to duplicate the
+early BART magstripe tickets (and thus credit cards, until he helped the banks find a more reliable
+encryption design):</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>It’s not my fault. When engineers have too much money, they usually
+think only of the most sophisticated ways they can spend it. No one asks them to play devil’s
+advocate and think of the obvious until it’s too late.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">In response to an allegation that he was working for the Golden Gate Bridge district
+(designing a traffic barrier to prevent head-on collisions that the bridge engineers said could not be designed)
+without a professional engineer’s license:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>I don’t take public money for exposing high-priced fools who pretend
+to be competent engineers.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">In response to a corrosion engineer who had been working on the EBMUD blue water problem
+for a year:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>Where I went to school, we don’t give degrees to engineers who can’t
+solve a problem in a year.</q></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">Upon being asked why other talk show hosts don’t follow his format of welcoming callers
+on any subject:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>If you do, you’d better be ready to spend three hours on the air
+admitting your ignorance. You’d better be prepared for what smart people will ask
+you.</q></blockquote>
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