When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else..

The village is coming back, like it or not..

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments t….

In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of ….

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego..

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask ….

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next..

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the rich….

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. ….

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People….

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors w….

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning..

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonabl….

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the ….

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed..

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior..

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's….

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand ….

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power..

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?.