Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.