The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

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?

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence