learning Quotes

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.