Erector Quotes

#1. I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

Ray Kurzweil

#2. A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Mary Roach

#3. I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Robin Morgan

#4. We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

James Van Allen

#5. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu

#6. Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Raymond Chandler

#7. We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

Martin Luther King III

#8. One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Louis Menand

#9. I don't want to talk about anybody else's movie, but I understand fan skepticism when you're like, "Oh yeah, a Godzilla movie." Which, by the way, our first movie was Batman Begins and was not dissimilar from questions and conversations from people about where the Batman franchise was, so I get it.

Thomas Tull

#10. Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.

John McCain

#11. When you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

Stephen Richards