Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others

Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.