Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

A satellite has no conscience.