Orville Wright Quotes

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.