The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.