It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

What a long strange trip it's been.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.