Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWe had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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