Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.