We choose mania over boredom every time.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.