American Quotes

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.