“In the old days, I’d lug my book around and do a dog and pony show with my work meticulously mounted to 16″x20″ black boards. It’s how they taught me to do it in art school. What they didn’t teach me was how to whip up a proper proposal.”

“Jerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, collected these gems of wisdom over a number of years from various unidentified sources. Rod Stewart of Mobile Data Services in Huntsville, Alabama edited and updated them. I found and kept a copy of these during the early nineties. Over time, the NASA link disappeared, so this version of the rules was posted to make sure that it stayed available.”