A number of sources including Wikipedia state that when the first V-2 hit London, Wernher von Braun apparently said:
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
This sounds entirely too dramatic and rehearsed. It doesn't help that Wikipedia does not provide a source for this quote. How true is this account? Presumably, the statement was made in German. What is the original quote?
But one day, I heard that Horikoshi had once murmured, ‘All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.’