It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.

I'm glad to be here [in Israel] again.

I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.

Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game