Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.