Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.