The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.