True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.'

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.