Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

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.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

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).