"It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, ..." — Freeman Dyson

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.