I think it's important to take risks and to not be afraid of failure.
Technology accumulation is a long-term process; short-term gains should not be the focus.
The universe would look to a two-dimensional creature who spend its life moving on the service of what turned out to be a globe, it could travel for millions of years and would always return to its starting point, it would never be conscious of what was above it or beneath it.
I'm not here to fit in, I'm here to stand out.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.