When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

No one is dumb who is curious.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.