- → “Five hundred years from now, people are not gonna remember which faction came out on top in Iraq, or Syria, or whatever. But they will remember what we do to make their civilization possible. This is the most important thing we can do in this time. If you have it in your power to do something great, and wonderful, and powerful, then you should.”
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age. This is the forecast for an age of peace." — Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss in a 1954 address to scientists.
- → The 1st 15 seconds: “We have been given the scientific knowledge, the technical ability and the materials to pursue the exploration of the universe. To ignore these great resources would be a corruption of a god given ability.”
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." — J.R.R. Tolkien
- → "Right, back to work". I know some call MI6 tribute to Bond cold and rather disrespectful as it's a minute memorial within a working day, but I found it perfect. He was incinerated, no body or ashes available for a proper funeral. The Jack London quote perfectly summed up Bond as a whole. As of "right, back to work", he's gone, literally nothing they can do. The world doesn't stop spinning. And life must go on. Short but sweet. Truth be told, less is more.
