There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, ” This is new, and therefore better.
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don’t know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
It’s common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.
It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
Right! Right! ‘Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it’s dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune out of selling us gadgets to purify it again. Why can’t they be made to strain out their own shit?
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.