Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

— Al Gore

All the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

— Mark Kennedy

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

— Henry Petroski

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

— John Boyd Orr

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

— Barack Obama

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

— Gregory Benford

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

— Charles Lindbergh

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

— Greg MacGillivray

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

— Rebecca Solnit

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

— Lorene Scafaria