Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.
“Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.”
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Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.
“Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.”
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“Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.”
“When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a hangar in my backyard with my airplane in it so I could just fly from my home.”
“Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.”
“I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.”
“I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.”
“Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.”
“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.”
“I walk into the most incredible fashion houses and see the most incredible things - new technology, new ideas, new music. Incredible lighting, new girls.”
“I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.”
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.”
“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.”
“Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.”