Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Paul MacCready

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American engineer Paul MacCready.

Last updated on October 6, 2024.

Paul B. MacCready Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "do more with less".

American - Engineer | September 25, 1925 - August 28, 2007

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Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

Paul MacCready

We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.

Paul MacCready

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

Paul MacCready

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

Paul MacCready

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

Paul MacCready

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Paul MacCready

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

Paul MacCready

The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Paul MacCready

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Paul MacCready

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Paul MacCready