“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of GOD to ever get them out to benefit humanity”
There is a video of him giving a speech where he says this as he is walking off the stage. I can no longer find that video.
Makes perfect sense. Even though we had begun using computers to keep track of parts, spares and other necessary things for larger scale manufacturing. The president's office (Kelly Johnson's and Ben Rich's) at the Skunkworks which we actually referred to as Advanced Development Projects or simply ADP had a large replica of a slide rule on the wall with a caption under it that read "ADP Computer"! Up until the F117A all engineering design was mostly done the old way.