"You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs."

"The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?"

"Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them."

"The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly."

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

"If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."