You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.
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.
Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
