When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.
Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
