It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence