The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.