Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

I don't usually play games. I got added to one and was played.When I realize the creator I will be the coach, now that I've mastered the game.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

I wasn't born, I was unleashed.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.