Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Learn, relearn and outlearn.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.