“The strategy here is quite simple. We want to create an environment based on Windows that will give consumers ... the ability to take their content to any device that was connected back to a Windows PC. (Adding) the Xbox 360 is just the next evolution of that vision.”

“Evolution at this level, like the rest of history, is predictable, perhaps more predictable than people want to imagine. Many traits are so advantageous under so many circumstances that you are likely to see the same things again and again.”

We gain from the new science of mind not only insights into ourselves - how we perceive, learn, remember, feel, believe and act - but also a new perspective of ourselves and our fellow human beings in the context of biological evolution.

“There has been an evolution in his thinking. . . . He is much more aware of the subtleties of making this work in the American political process. He is not an egghead academic who doesn't get it. He knows how to learn and operate in the real world.”

But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.

“Taking these vehicles out on training evolutions and convoy operations will definitely cut down on motor vehicle accidents in Iraq. The mission is to make drivers aware of the weight difference, and eventually, handling the vehicles will become second nature to them again.”

Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.

We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out of the water like creatures in an act of evolution.