Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.