Looking ahead I believe that the underlying importance of higher education of science of technology of research and scholarship to our quality of life to the strength of our economy to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead so it's always been something I look towards.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Deep down the US with its space its technological refinement its bluff good conscience even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation is the only remaining primitive society.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

If co-operation is thus the lifeblood of science and technology it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology taking advantage of better tools methods and organization.

Today over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math science technology and engineering yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.