Quotes from Stephen Hawking

Computer viruses are alive.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

However difficult life may be seem,there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

One has to be grown-up enough to realize that life is not fair; you just have to do the best you can in the situation you're in.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.