From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.
Ray BradburySpace ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert FrostThis whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
Bill GatesIt’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
Bill GatesIf there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
Kobe BryantWe think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve JobsI read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry PratchettI think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai LamaComputers make me totally blank out.
Dalai LamaWhat we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff BezosI would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.
Elon MuskScience is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da VinciInnovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
Bill GatesThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.
Mark ZuckerbergYou can’t really imagine music without technology.
Brian EnoI just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.
Mark ZuckerbergI find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘
Ray BradburyDigital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
George LucasI’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Bill GatesFor the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark ZuckerbergThe first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.
Richard P. FeynmanThe future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
Elon MuskIf you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.
Bill GatesOK, so what’s the speed of dark?
Steven WrightWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoThe boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet – it’s my favorite.
Carl SaganWhat is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador DaliWoz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve JobsI know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
Bill GatesElectrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
Nikola TeslaI have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Stephen HawkingI’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon MuskThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosElectronic books are junk.
Ray BradburyThe world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
Bill GatesWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank OceanIt’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
Elon MuskI don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘
Douglas AdamsI believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
Stephen HawkingI didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
Bill GatesModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola TeslaThis world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas CarlyleIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerTwo kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
Jeff BezosGoogle’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.
Bill GatesGravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Richard P. FeynmanI think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.
Stephen HawkingIt takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve JobsNetscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
Bill GatesThe credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill GatesToday’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola TeslaThe mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskThe real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.
Mark ZuckerbergThere’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill GatesThere is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!
Richard P. Feynman