If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.