I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.