And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. I​t makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding.

To die fulfilled is to have discovered self and purpose and to achieve all that comes in these two packages

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames