“The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.”

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

Anytime you get a group of people, they’re going to have different ideas and they’re going to want to approach situations in different ways.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.