->'''[[BigBad Obake]]:''' Do you know why Icarus plunged to his doom? \\
'''[[TeenGenius Hiro]]:''' Because he [[PrideBeforeAFall flew too high]]. \\
'''Obake:''' Because he needed ''[[AlternateAesopInterpretation better wings]]''.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'', "[[Recap/BigHero6TheSeriesS1E21CountdownToCatastrophe Countdown to Catastrophe]]"

->''But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. ''
--> -- '''Randall Munroe''', ''Blog/WhatIf'' [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/ #30: Interplanetary Cessna]]

->''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.\\
Visit briefly, in little hops, and you can go anywhere.''
--> -- '''Randall Munroe''', ''Blog/WhatIf'' [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/115/ #115: Into the Sun]]

->''You're going to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the picture. I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus'. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.''
-->-- '''Tony Wilson''', ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople''

->''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 - Convention Book: Iteration X''

%%->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".
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