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.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

We can influence the future but not see it.

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.