There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.