B. J. Habibie famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.
-- B. J. Habibie
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The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.
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Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
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If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
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