We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Saving money turns out to be the universal application, ... That's why Wal-Mart is as big as Wal-Mart is.

It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.

If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, [the Semantic Web] will make all the data in the world look like one huge database.