Boeing 747 Quotes:

The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

- Hendrik Tennekes

topic: Village, Boeing, Boeing 747, Global Village

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

- Paul Goldberger

topic: Strong, Space, Boeing 747, String Quartets, Boeing

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Might, Boeing, Tornadoes, Evolution Of Life, Junkyard

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

- Fred Hoyle

source: Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

topic: Blow, Yards, Pieces, Bits And Pieces, Disarray

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?

- Zell Miller

source: "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

topic: Weather, September 11, Boeing, Glocks, Bad Weather

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

- C. Walton Lillehei

topic: Brother, Heart, Wings, Transplants, Wright Brothers

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Boeing, Designer, Entity, Boeing 747

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

- Nathan Myhrvold

topic: New York, Law, Everyday, Moore's Law, Boeing