I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel our family members and our laborers our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them admire them and abuse them. And of course we cook and eat them.

If you want to look at the state of humans you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

Climate change is happening humans are causing it and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Ultimately we may still ask why can't humans design a perfect society?

We have abolished the death penalty for humans so why should it continue for animals?

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries dating and religion.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Because I believe that humans are computers I conjectured that computers like people can have left- and right-handed versions.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat it won't jump out. Instead it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

It's impossible I think however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want on a lot of levels but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Photography alone of the arts seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.