It is always far better to achieve glorious triumphs even at the risk of being checkered by failure. Than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.