Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again.

In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Ignorance is not an extension of time

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.