Lander Quotes

#1. SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

David Letterman

#3. The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more
perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

Jonah Goldberg

#4. It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.

Henry Spencer

#5. Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

Seth Shostak

#6. When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

Peter Diamandis

#7. The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

Henry Spencer

#8. White people are drawn to farmer's markets like moths to a flame. In fact, white people have such strong instincts that if
you release a white person into a random Saturday morning they will return to you with a reusable bag full of fruits and vegetables.

Christian Lander

#9. The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

Terry Lander

#10. Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

Eric Lander

#11. I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.

Al Roker

#12. For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

Christian Lander

#13. We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Eric Lander

#14. White people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what's the point of reading a book if people don't know you've read it? It's like a tree falling in the forest.

Christian Lander

#15. All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.

Christian Lander

#16. This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads of their kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books.

Christian Lander

#17. It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.

Christian Lander

#18. Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.

Kirpal Singh

#19. You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.

Christian Lander

#20. White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is
because the activity affords them the opportunity to be outside, to use a carabiner for something other than their keys, and to purchase a whole new set of expensive activity-specific clothing and accessories.

Christian Lander

#21. (Butch Thinking) Those claws wre like daggers. they made Freddie Krueger's set of fun and games look like pipe cleaners.

J.R. Ward

#22. We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

Eric Schmidt

#23. If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

Christian Lander

#24. When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that
white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work.

Christian Lander

#25. Since white people can't really blame any race for their problems, they need to blame corporations.

Christian Lander

#26. Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

Eric Lander

#27. The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!

Christian Lander

#28. I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

David Lander

#29. If you look into the footnotes of the business model for Apple Computer you'll see that they actually give the computers away for free; they just charge for the inflated sense of self-worth.

Christian Lander

#30. The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

Rebel Wilson

#31. The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stores are well known for their abundance of white customers and their extensive inventory of things for white people to buy and only use once.

Christian Lander

#32. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.

Terry Lander