Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.