"The best thing about being a man of science is that you never have to be bored."

"We have not yet fully solved the problem of balance in high winds."

"It is not disputed that every person who is using this system today owes it to us and to us alone."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."

"The only way to learn to fly is to fly."