What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery.
In plain words
What you really need is skill, not fancier equipment.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Letter to Octave Chanute, 1900
- 1900
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