There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -- and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.