Quotes of famous people on life extension

"We want to live forever, and we are getting there"
Bill Clinton, 42nd US President, October 1999[1]

"I wish it were possible... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But... in all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection... "
Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jacques Dubourg, April 1773, as quoted in Benjamin Franklin: The First Civilized American, p. 235. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cryonics

"My relationship with death remains the same. I'm strongly against it"
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"[2]
Woody Allen.

"I think immortality is a perfectly reasonable goal and it's hard to think of a more important one"
Marvin Minsky (considered to be the godfather of artificial intelligence)

"I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying"
William de Morgan, british artist [3]