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.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.