Skip to content

Portrait of Paul MacCready

Paul MacCready

(1925–2007) Military Flight Engineer

10 quotes in 98 categories

Paul MacCready was a military flight engineer, best known for Assessing the local wind field for siting of wind power systems.

Quick Facts About Paul MacCready

Born: September 25, 1925
Died: August 28, 2007
Profession: Military Flight Engineer
Notable works: Assessing the local wind field for siting of wind power systems

About Paul MacCready

Paul Beattie MacCready Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "do more with less".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Paul MacCready

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day…

Big idea

Image

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

Airplane

Image

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown…

Balance

Image

The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Funny

Image

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells

Funny

Image

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch…

Burned

Image

We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have…

Aviation

Image

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Funny

Image

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Carbon

Image

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

Asks

Image