"It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."

"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence."

"You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"