Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.

It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.