Motor Quotes

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris... because no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Orville Wright

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

Report writing, like motor - Car driving and love - Making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....

R. Buckminster Fulle

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Charles E. Wilson