You can't be a professor without having been a student. You can't be a CONSULTANT without having been a research associate. So, if you outsource the LEAST SOPHISTICATED jobs, at some stage, the next STEP of the LADDER has to follow.

We MUST ADDRESS, individually and collectively, moral and ethical ISSUES raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.

When you take a CHARACTER seriously, there's more ROOM for COMEDY because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I'm not for RAISING TAXES on ANYONE - PERIOD.

I'm not claiming to be ANYTHING out of the ORDINARY. I am not especially BIG or STRONG or BRAVE or intrepid.

Oil has ALLOWED us to THINK about economics as THOUGH energy doesn't MATTER.

Our FAMILY story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 KIDS in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to GO to four-year college... it was a big MOMENT in our family's life.

I went to PICK my son up from SCHOOL and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and GOT HIT by a car. The car happened to be DRIVEN by a LAPD detective.

We really think it is a GOOD thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their TIME either in the community or in schools or helping to TRAIN high school TEACHERS.