It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics..

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists..

Rock is much more malleable than ideas..

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit..

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one….

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech….

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check..

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible..

What we need is equality without conformity..

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived..

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodie….

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange..

There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements p….

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to sch….

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves..

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real..

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time..

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was kno….

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval be….

You can only kill disappointment with a new try..