Occupation: Mathematician Birth: May 22, 1942
It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotional….
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser..
We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not..
No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid t….
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Scien….
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the….
The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible..
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or dis….
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression..
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolutio….
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods..
There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for….
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and conti….
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an i….
Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via th….
Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto!.
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winn….
The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system ….
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of fr….
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under….