The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me this will take time but there is order here very faint very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

Denial exists because human infants though equipped with trust-o-meters are built to trust blindly and absolutely any older person who wanders past.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200 000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people and doing physical things.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains new stars garish birds freak fish grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well semi-normal.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world but as animals they inhabit time.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Adolescence is a new birth for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology which we call cloning without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that in this age of powerful technology the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech to use any information and technology to purchase and use recreational drugs to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices' to be free of intruders and to privacy.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises wars and atrocities but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

Technology is a wonderful tool but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.