One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

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.

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

I am an artist and a political being as well.