Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.

We are only intelligent by our own measures

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?