Yves Rossy quotes

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.
-- Yves Rossy

#Technology #Bird #Sometimes

I was always pretty good at designing things.
-- Yves Rossy

#Design

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.
-- Yves Rossy

When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
-- Yves Rossy

#Dark #Light #Blue

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
-- Yves Rossy

#Fall #Airplane #Flying

Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
-- Yves Rossy

#Dream #Men #Wings

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
-- Yves Rossy

#Bird #Littles #Aviation

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.