When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'
I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.