Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

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.

My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.