Paul MacCready Quotes
- The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.
- Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology…
- The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
- We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
- Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of…
- We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking…
- Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
- I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells
- The problem is we don't understand the problem.
- The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is…