Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

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