Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

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

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.

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

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.