Danske citater:

• Det er endnu ikke blevet bevist, at intelligens har nogen værdi for overlevelsen.
• Enhver tilstrækkelig avanceret teknologi er ikke til at skelne fra magi.
• Hvor upassende at vi kalder vores planet Jorden, nÃ¥r det helt klart er et hav.

Engelske citater:

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe,and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
• The proposition that intelligence has any long-term survival value remains to be demonstrated.
• The science of any sufficiently advanced race would appear to us like magic.
• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.