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

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.

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.

You ask me to forgive you? I’m thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay, and the other, feathers.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.