Paul MacCready Quotes

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". Wikipedia  

✵ 25. September 1925 – 28. August 2007
Paul MacCready photo
Paul MacCready: 1   quote 0   likes

Paul MacCready Quotes

“If you don't have a big enough shovel, you get some friends to help you.”

Paul MacCready Interview http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mac0int-1, Engineer of the Century, January 12, 1991, Pasadena, California
Context: If you want to move mountains, you just go move mountains. If you don't have a big enough shovel, you get some friends to help you. If you have the enthusiasm to charge ahead, you can do all sorts of things. Some things you can't do. You can't invent a perpetual motion machine. You've got to select your targets. But people can do so much more than they realize.

Similar authors

Jack Kilby photo
Jack Kilby 1
American electrical engineer
Hannes Alfvén photo
Hannes Alfvén 9
Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist
Jacque Fresco photo
Jacque Fresco 52
American futurist and self-described social engineer
Martin Lewis Perl photo
Martin Lewis Perl 9
American scientist
Jack Welch photo
Jack Welch 27
American executive: General Electric CEO
Luciano De Crescenzo photo
Luciano De Crescenzo 1
Italian writer
Nikola Tesla photo
Nikola Tesla 125
Serbian American inventor
Charles K. Kao photo
Charles K. Kao 1
Hong Hong-British-American physicist
Guglielmo Marconi photo
Guglielmo Marconi 3
Italian inventor and radio pioneer
Henry Ford photo
Henry Ford 80
American industrialist