Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNow and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHistory will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
NEIL ARMSTRONGMan must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
NEIL ARMSTRONGStart at the end and work back.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSociety’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThis blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG