that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.