Orville Wright

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.