Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

We can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one.

I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did