Lawrence Hargrave famous quotes

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Ideas #Roots #Design

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Hard Work #People #Flying

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Wind #Sea #Bird

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Weight #Woods #Bent

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Squares #Feet #Kites

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Cutting #Air #May

My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump...
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Adventure #Years #Oil

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Adventure #People #Speak

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Wind #Sea #Giants

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

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.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.