We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space.

We're Kansas and the other side is Oz. People think no one lives here. But this is a really active neighborhood, with a lot of kids, and we want to take back this space.

I want to come out of my house and see kids and people enjoying themselves. I grew up in the Marina. I want to see people outside having fun. Right now they're too afraid to walk around here.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.