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Your Only Competitors Are Your Past Achievements.

I Probably Spend More Time Writing Than Reading Science Fiction. I Find That Science-fiction Literature Is So Reactive To All The Literature That's Gone Before That It's Sort Of Like A Fractal. It's Gone To A Level Of Detail That The Average Person Could Not Possibly Follow Unless You're A Fan. It Iterates Upon Many Prior Generations Of Iterations.

Religions Fulfill Deep-seated Psychological Needs For People, And If You Don't Get It From A Specific Religious Doctrine, You'll Get It From The Kind Of Films I Like To Make. A Film Like The Terminator Is Consciously Meant To Give A Sense Of Empowerment To The Individual.

I'm Hopeful That We'll Be Able To Study The Ocean Before We Destroy It.

You Can Have A Strong Economy Or You Can Help The Environment, But You Can't Do Both At The Same Time. That's Ridiculous. In Fact, As A Sustainable Vision For A Healthy Economy Has To Involve Changing Our Energy Policy And Changing With Respect To The Natural World. Because We're Hitting Nature's Thresholds, We're Hitting Nature's Limits With Respect To Water And Crop Yields And Energy Use And Fossil Fuels Heating The Atmosphere At The Same Time We're Past Global Peak And Running Out Of That.