Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!