The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.