I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They ju…

- Richard Dooling

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitaliz…

- Richard Dooling

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - '…

- Richard Dooling

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on h…

- Richard Dooling

I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust…

- Richard Dooling

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather h…

- Richard Dooling

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away fr…

- Richard Dooling

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

- Richard Dooling

The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ulti…

- Richard Dooling