Technology accumulation is a long-term process; short-term gains should not be the focus.

"In a world without God, we must create our own meaning, even if it is ultimately meaningless."

"I am not interested in the psychology of characters, but in the psychology of situations."

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.