Quotes About Seti

#1. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford

#2. Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Ken Blanchard

#3. Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

Nathan Myhrvold

#4. The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

Seth Shostak

#5. To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Mark Twain

#6. How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion.

Rene Girard

#8. Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Erik Naggum

#9. I travelled among unknown men
in lands beyond the sea ...

William Wordsworth

#10. Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Boris Vian

#11. The notion of a universe filled with cowards ... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become ... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.

David Brin

#12. Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

Thomas A Kempis

#13. Tastes like shit!

Christopher Moore

#14. As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

Jill Tarter

#15. SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

Jill Tarter

#16. The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

Saint John Chrysostom

#17. I've never met anyone that is their image.

Macy Gray

#18. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jill Tarter

#19. The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Carl Sagan

#20. I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Brett Gelman

#21. The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

Cameron Dokey

#22. It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Barney Oliver

#23. Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

David Karp

#24. The universe has always been there is no beginning there is no end.

Khafra K. Om-Ra-Seti

#25. I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. Unless SETI can find an earth-like environment in other planets; its purpose to find intelligent beings means nothing but failure. The Caveman in the Box.

Joey Lawsin

#27. SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

Arthur C. Clarke

#28. If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

Chelsea Handler