Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that's not being made clear to young people. If we can't make it clear to young people they're not going to go into science. And science will suffer in the United States.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.