He half-shrugs, and has one more bite of his burger before pushing two-thirds of it away.
'I don't want to get hung up in the minutiae of any one thing for too long. It'd become tedious. I have no problem with long-running plans, but they're usually things I touch in and out of. Once I've handed over the design, I expect you'll come back to me if you have questions, or if testing throws up something unexpected, or whatever. That's fine. But the bulk of it will be set, unless some massively unforeseen thing happens and means I have to change everything.'
And the chances of that are...low. Jim anticipates just about everything.
'Now, if you were asking me to put a base on Mars or, better yet, some entirely uncharted planet - that I wouldn't mind dedicating a year to.'
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Date: 2016-11-26 09:40 pm (UTC)From:He half-shrugs, and has one more bite of his burger before pushing two-thirds of it away.
'I don't want to get hung up in the minutiae of any one thing for too long. It'd become tedious. I have no problem with long-running plans, but they're usually things I touch in and out of. Once I've handed over the design, I expect you'll come back to me if you have questions, or if testing throws up something unexpected, or whatever. That's fine. But the bulk of it will be set, unless some massively unforeseen thing happens and means I have to change everything.'
And the chances of that are...low. Jim anticipates just about everything.
'Now, if you were asking me to put a base on Mars or, better yet, some entirely uncharted planet - that I wouldn't mind dedicating a year to.'