I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.