The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.