You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

The command to be free is a double bind

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape