Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.