But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

— Ramez Naam

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special? It doesn't.

— Ramez Naam

Environmental concern is a phenomenon that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

— Ramez Naam

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

— Ramez Naam

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

— Ramez Naam

Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

— Ramez Naam

I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. Furthermore, I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. Furthermore, I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. Furthermore, I put my feet up on a table while I type.

— Ramez Naam

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

— Ramez Naam

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

— Ramez Naam

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

— Ramez Naam