A Quote by Charles Douglas Jackson

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Charles Douglas Jackson

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Gear Great Great Idea Great Ideas Ideas Landing Need Well Wings

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Charles Douglas Jackson
March 16, 1902 - September 18, 1964

Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.

Baba Kalyani

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

Tony Visconti

If you want to do this, you've got to last. You've got to be well enough to carry your ideas. I'm not saying I've got great ideas, but if I do I need to be able to deliver them.

Aldous Harding

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Chuck Yeager

My whole life I've always innovated the gear to match my pursuits. I've innovated the best climbing gear, the best slacklining gear, and definitely the most advanced BASE jumping gear.

Dean Potter

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Jeff Bezos

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

Bertrand Meyer

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

Linda McMahon

You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

Richie Hawtin

It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.

Clint Mansell

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

Alfonso Cuaron

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

David Ogilvy

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

Butch Vig

I have all sorts of country clothing because we live in Northumberland as well as London. You need good quality gear.

Sol Campbell

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.