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What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human. ”
I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me. ”
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it. ”
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on. ”
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry. ”
What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes. ”
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. ”
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. ”
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. ”
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. ”