Erector Set Quotes

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

Mary Roach

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

James Van Allen

#3. 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

#4. Take it as a lie - or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction.

H.G.Wells

#5. Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".

Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

#6. You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

Lena Coakley

#7. N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Epicurus

#8. Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

Claudia Cardinale

#9. Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.

Tyler Cowen