I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.

It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.