My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

People are naming it the Third Wave the Information Age etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies especially in recombinant DNA technology allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics atomic structure or biological inheritance.

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction nuclear chemical or biological weapons there has to be an element of preemption.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Our technological powers increase but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor and my stepfather who raised me along with my mother is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

Literature is my life of course but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view I like being a teacher.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

These individuals on steroids does it enhance their career does it give them a little more strength a little more stamina a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy maintain its rule with force but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Calm open debate and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection tribe competing against tribe and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement crime and sexual behavior.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society meant both literally and figuratively for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Deep down the US with its space its technological refinement its bluff good conscience even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation is the only remaining primitive society.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

It may be far in the future but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.