Air Quote by Joe Sutter

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

— Terry Pratchett

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design…

— Burt Rutan

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a…

— Elon Musk

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

— Frank Whittle

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

— Jack Vance

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built…

— Mark Zuckerberg

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind…

— Richard Branson

The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was…

— Burt Rutan

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

— C. R. Smith

We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its…

— Jensen Huang

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel…

— Alan Mulally

The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture.…

— Aleksandra Mir