They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

We are hard-wired to engage with those we trust, and this hard-wiring has led to a constant push for greater interaction and connection on the Web.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.