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

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.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.