“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”

“It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”

“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”

“You can’t have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ”

“I have learned to use the world ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.”

“Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”

“The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”