We are not completely autonomous.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

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.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.