"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."

"I think happiness is not a smiling face, it's more a smiling soul."

"It's a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud."

"There is interesting ethical questions about how we should actually conduct ourselves in [a space colonization] exploration phase."

"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."

"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."

"Being aware of your mindsets is the difference between living a conscious life, where you're making choices in accord with what you actually want and going where you actually wanna go, versus being on autopilot and having those mindsets subconsciously drive all of your decisions."