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Burt Rutan Quotes

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Burt Rutan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 17, 1943

Topics

Innovation NASA Bureaucracy Kind

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Capaldi

Morning Writing Song Wonder Living

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Jenna Elfman

Me Comedy Harder Though Much Proved

I like to tell stories and relate to people and get everybody having a good time. I don't ever want to be in a situation people feel the need to tell me their opinion. So I stay away from any kind of material that would cause somebody in the audience to shout me their opinion.

Anjelah Johnson

Good Time People Having A Good Time

TNA is great about going out of their way to interact with the fans.

Jeff Hardy

Great Way Out Fans Going About

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

Mia Wasikowska

Eyes Challenge Me You Open Turn

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

John Spratt

Government You Country Young Right

In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.

John Tiffany

Car Opportunity Imagination Swimming

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

Mickey Drexler

Beautiful Me Design Customer Apple

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

Respect Practice Democracy Think Own

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Molly Ringwald

Success Failure Wish More I Wish

Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

Together Words People Language Teeth

We've never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company.

Jason Fried

Money You Tax Participation Never