You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.