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.

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.

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.

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

Be passionate bleed colors & words which waters both soul and body

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun.

These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.