Allen Grossman famous quotes

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  • To fight, we must have oil for our machine.

  • Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

  • Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

  • I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

  • I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  • It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

  • I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

  • Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

  • There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

  • We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.