Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Looking at where the planet is now, we could screw things up massively or we could wise-up on a species level and actually make things better. If I had to put my money where my mouth is, I think we'll wise up globally but there will still be outbreaks of local stupidity.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.