So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.