Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

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

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

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.

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