Burt Rutan Quotes

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• Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

  Burt Rutan

  Understanding, Marketing, Testing Yourself

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• When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, thats nonsense!', so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Mean, Creative, Nonsense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

  Burt Rutan

  Looks, Nonsensical

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• I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

  Burt Rutan

  Believe, Talking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

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  Smart, People, Breakthrough

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• A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Research, Nonsense, Have Confidence

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• We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, Home, Computer

  "Burt Rutan: Aesthete & Visionary Space Maverick" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• 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

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

  Burt Rutan

  Consensus

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• Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

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  Technology, Years, Space

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• The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Grandchildren, Moon

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• NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

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  Research, Development, Doing Nothing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it.

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  Moon, Dollars, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
  which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

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  Lying, Airplane, Data

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• I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, Important, Reason

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• Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

  Burt Rutan

  Achieve, Volume, Spaceflight

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

  Burt Rutan

  Men, America, Space

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

  Burt Rutan

  Research And Development, Two, Differences

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Airplane, Intelligent, Design

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• Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

  Burt Rutan

  Crazy, College, Aerospace

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

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  Thinking, Space, Order

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• America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.

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  War, Russia, America

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

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  Kids, Eye, Rockets

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• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, People, Microsoft

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

  Burt Rutan

  Flying, Criticism, Interest

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