We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?