We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of universal suffrage.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.