“I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.” HomeFiveFourHotWork Out Author:Buddy Rice
“It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.” AbleWinningPresidentRaceCarSouthHanging OutLawns Author:Buddy Rice
“The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.” InterestLosesCriticismFlying Author:Burt Rutan
“Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.” TryingDifferentTodayNaturalDesignIntelligentDifferent ThingsPilotsAirplaneCrashSelectionNatural SelectionIntelligent Design Author:Burt Rutan
“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.” YearsEnergyTechnologyDangerousCarResourcesConcernSevenGlobal WarmingNonsenseElectricCarbonSeven YearsUnprecedentedEnvironmentalistCarbon DioxideTippingTipping PointElectric CarAdvanced Technology Author:Burt Rutan
“I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.” PeopleWorldYearsWarCoursesFunForceAirBuildingSevenFlyingFlightAround The WorldVietnamAirplaneTestingSeven YearsVietnam WarGarageAir Force Author:Burt Rutan
“I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.” PeopleWantAssKicks Author:Michael J. Fox
“I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.” FactsUsedSharePlanetsTheoryProveScientistClimateVariousDeeperSmellConclusionDataShockedSummaryGraphs Author:Burt Rutan
“NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.” ShouldOrderHouseWishWhiteModernBuildingResearchShould HaveOrganizationWhite HouseNasaReplacements Author:Burt Rutan