We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.