Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

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.

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

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.

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate.

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

I made my own house be my gallows.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.