[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

There is no one right way to live.

If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don't find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like buggy whips and buggies.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.