We all are big believers in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

Find what scares you and do it.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.