"It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success."

"If birds can glide for long periods of time, then why can't we?"

"We could not understand how it was that the best scientists could not fly a machine. We thought that they must be working on the wrong principle."

"We did not find it necessary to use any of the formulas of the scientists, but we worked out our own formulas."

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has progressed to an incurable stage."