It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.

Computer viruses are alive.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.