It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.