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

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.

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

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.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Nothing is forever except change.

You see a lot of anger in the streets , demonstrations every night since the election [2016].

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.