History Quotes / IcarusAllusion

->''In Greek legend, Icarus flew too close to the Sun, and the heat melted his wings and he fell to his death. But "melting" is a phase change which is the function of temperature, a measure of internal energy, which is the integral of incident power flux'' over time''. His wings didn't melt because he flew too close to the Sun, they melted because he spent too much time there.''

->Ask an aeronautics engineer what he think of the story of Icarus, and he'll say "yet another hotshot pilot pushing the equipment far beyond its limits". Ask a pilot what he thinks of the story of Icarus, and he'll say "yet another case of engineers not taking the most basic maneuvers into account".

->'''Obake:''' Do you know why Icarus plunged to his doom? \\
'''Hiro:''' Because he [[PrideBeforeAFall flew too high]]. \\

->You're an educated sort, I'm sure you know the story of Daedalus. Trapped in prison by King Minos with his son, builds wings of bees' wax and feathers for his son and himself, flies out the window, the boy Icarus flies too high and [[TakeThat crashes harder than an American spy-plane]]? Right, that Icarus. The Artificers were big on the story of Daedalus. As parables go, it's a good one, giving solid pointers on [[PrideBeforeAFall the danger of hubris]] on one hand, and on the other [[AlternateAesopInterpretation reinforcing the idea]] that [[DareToBeBadass if we really try]], [[ScienceHero we can fly]].

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Iteration X''

--> -- '''Randall Munroe''', ''Blog/WhatIf''

-->-''[[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} what-if.xkcd.com]]''