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

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.

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.

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

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

I stew all night in my own grease.

We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.