With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.