John Carmack Quotes

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

By the time I was 13, I was very interested in rocketry.

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

I love photography. I love rockets.

Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO's technology.