"Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they're going to be spying on neighbors. People don't need drones."

“The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.”

“When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.”

“Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different than World War One, and so on. Some things remain the same, of course - one side fighting another over ideology or a patch of ground - but there are some aspects of combat life which differ radically than their predecessors.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells”

Source : "P. B. MacCready, 81, Inventor, Dies" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 2007.

“I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.”

“Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.”

“The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.”

Source : Robert Jastrow (1990). “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration--Tomorrow and Beyond”, Bantam

“I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.”