Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

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

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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