Bill Lear famous quotes

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.
-- Bill Lear

#Life #Exercise #Design

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
-- Bill Lear

#Motivational #Students #Teach

You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
-- Bill Lear

#Cadillacs

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
-- Bill Lear

#Simplicity #Aviation #Strive

If it looks good, it will fly good.
-- Bill Lear

#Looks

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?
-- Bill Lear

#Art #Men #Hundred

What you need is an idea.
-- Bill Lear

#Ideas #Needs

You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
-- Bill Lear

#Cadillacs #Lear

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.