Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

1. 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. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

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.