Longley on Life's Quest

"For me, this is what the future is all about: the endless quest for understanding how things work and what else is out there. It's the journey, not the arrival that matters. It's the unanswerable question of what it takes to make the perfect world and the perfect life ... It's the constant experiment that counts; never knowing what will turn out right, what will turn out wrong ... Human beings are discoverers, inventors, experimenters, creators, of an unknown and chaotic future. We will go on doing what we have always done: our best to try to understand it all. We will continue to shape the future -- not necessarily the future we want or the future we expect, but the future that will just happen. Whether we like it or not."

Richard Longley