We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

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

When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

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.

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

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.