"Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"