They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.