Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.