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.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.