The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.