Ada Lovelace Quotes

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

We're number one on the runway.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.