The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

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