We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.