"…it’s okay for people to put down technology and get on with their life once their job is done. We can rearrange how we think about the tools we build, so that someone putting down your tool doesn’t disprove its utility, but validates its usefulness."

Frank Chimero

"...settlement in space is not an authorized program... But by their efforts to assess the human and economic implications as well as technical feasibility, the participants in this effort have provided us with a vision that will engage our imagination and stretch our minds"

James C Fletcher, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration - October 1, 1976

"When you removed all the things that made people know where they were, what they were a part of, and when you changed it into a uniform world, then you have to explain things."

Hans Monderman