Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?

We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.

Awe is the best drug in the world

Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.