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We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.