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.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

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

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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

None of us know our real names.