Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.