The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life - but one cannot remain in the womb forever. Frank Tipler Though control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Richard Mitchell When the people are being beaten by a stick, they are not much happier when it is called "the People's Stick." Michael Bakunin The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. Freeman Dyson Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it. Freeman Dyson Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them. Stanislaw Jerzey Lec The corporation evolves to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever it does not. William Dugger Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biological state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. William Burroughs If we desire to form individuals capable of inventive thought and of helping the society of tomorrow to achieve progress, then it is clear that an education which is an active discovery of reality is superior. Jean Piaget Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. African Proverb Take from: GURPS: Transhuman Space: Deep Beyond Steve Jackson Games ISBN 1-55634-586-0 -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------