Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be gratefu...

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm...

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only co...

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profit...

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant...

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a p...

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.