Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.