'It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?'

'What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.'

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.'

Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

Somebody has to roll the dice. Mine are the hands that hold those dice. I'm not a bureaucrat, placing my career above the larger purposes I was put here to ser…