The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can’t be very important gods.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.