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Quotes by Inventor
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
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"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."
42
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
40
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
39
"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
38
"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
36
"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
26
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
24
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."
23
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
21
"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."
17
"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
17
"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."
17
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
16
"Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930."
14
"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
14
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
13
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
13
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
13
"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."
12
"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
12
"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power."
12
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
12
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
11
"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
11
"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title."
10
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
10
"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
10
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
10
"I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself."
10
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
9
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
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