The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.