Quotes from Neil Armstrong

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

People love conspiracy theories.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

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.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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.

The Eagle has landed.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

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.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I 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.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

It 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.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.