Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) — "The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more …"

"The machine has been flown in all sorts of weather."

"It was impossible to convince the people generally that we were not a pair of lunatics."

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

"Often, after an hour or so of heated argument, we would discover that we were as far from agreement as when we started, but that each had changed to the other's original position."

"No flights of any kind were made except those of our own machine, which, strange to say, did not become a public amusement."