“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

“Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.”

“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.”

“The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”

“I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand.”

“Really? What did you cost me again? I ask.A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.”