It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

A complainer rarely succeeds

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Our history is not our destiny.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.