Author of quotes: Mark Lazarevich Gallay

Fame is a heavy burden that must be carried humbly and with dignity.

I have noticed that a person truly worthy of his fame usually thinks very little about it. And he thinks much more about the great responsibility that this fame imposes on him. In fact, if others look at you carefully, you have to be an example for them in everything.

Happy is the person who, looking back at the years he has lived, sees that he managed to be in the role of a pioneer at least once, to say his own new, weighty word in the matter to which he devoted his life.

It is necessary to be impenetrable uncompromising, at least in everything that concerns flights.

Failure can be accidental, luck is real, great luck cannot be accidental!

Will this hole really fly?

... If everything invented and developed on the ground worked as flawlessly in the air, flight tests would not be necessary. And you and I would urgently have to change our profession.

Test pilots are often referred to as aircraft examiners. This is honorable and generally correct. But we must not forget that if a test pilot examines an airplane, then the airplane also examines a test pilot every time, in every flight. And he does it with all the severity. The cut off person will often never be able to try to correct the mark.