"It is our view that morally the world owes its almost universal use of our system of lateral control entirely to us. It is also our opinion that legally it owes it to us."

"The course of the experiment was not exactly according to program. The machine started to make a series of dives and dashes in various directions. It was a rather wild ride."

"We are not content to walk upon the ground."

"The problem was not to build a machine that would fly, but to build a machine that would fly safely."

"The only bird that could speak told us what it knew, but we didn’t understand its language."