The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

In suffering, we trust the Saviour to be our strength.

Memories rob us of the present.

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.

You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't been fashion then it would have been something else.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

An actor has to embody a role.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.