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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 32 quotes by Burt Rutan Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the... Read full biography of Burt Rutan → 1 2 3 Ctrl → It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to... → 0 Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. 0 Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't. 0 There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris... → 0 In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies.... → 0 The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera... → 0 With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline. 0 When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's... → 0 Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is... → 0 Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the... → 0 I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building... → 0 There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit...... → 0 The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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