Why on Earth Are We There? Because It's Impossible
- Kind
- Magazine Article
- Date
- 21 Jul 1969
- Publisher
- New York Times
- Retrieved
- Dec 15, 2011
2 memes from this reference
Bumbling Humans Made It to the Moon
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the…
Man Traveled to the Moon because it was Impossible
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.