Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
TIME Magazine, 12 July 2019, https://time.com/5628572/elon-musk-moon-landing/
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”
Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
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Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution. But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
“Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.”
Jim Butcher book Cold Days
Source: Cold Days
“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Video lecture at Columbia University (23 March 2006), quoted in BBC News (23 March 2006) "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy"
Speeches
“Even in comparison to out sister world [Venus], our home planet is exceptional.”
Shawna Vogel science writer
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)
“Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.”
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)
“All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
1980s
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Annotation: It's unclear, whether this quote is from Hanyu himself or based on a commercial script, but it's commonly attributed to him.
Original: (ja) できなかったら、できるまでやる。できるようになったら、完璧にできるまでやる。完璧にできるようになったら、何度でも、完璧にできるまでやる。
Source: Attributed, Lines from a TV commercial for 味の素 アミノバイタル (AJINOMOTO amino VITAL), released on 1 October 2014, as quoted in フィギュアスケート14-15シーズン序盤号, published on 15 November 2014 by 日刊スポーツ新聞社 (Nikkan Sports News).