Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

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.

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.- RVM

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

‎What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams