"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."

-- Otto Lilienthal

#Airplane Quotes

“Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics”
“Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?”
“When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.”

Source : Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.
“It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.”
“Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”

Source : "'The Role of Statistics in the Data Revolution?'. International Statistical Review 69: 5-10" by Jerome H. Friedman, April 2001.
“Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.”
“Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.”
“A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.”

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