Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

Science has taken away our religion.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?