Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does, " Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.

They want a hero to worship, and a villain to condemn. They have found their villain today, and they would cherish it for as long as they can, till another one comes along.

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.