Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.
It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
Anyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
He prays because he knows he doesn’t control it. He’s at the mercy of it.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
Nobody is driven by abstractions like ‘seeking truth.
They didn’t understand what they were doing.I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.
Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
I believe my life has a value, and i don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don’t want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?
It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important.
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
…we haven’t had any accidents for months now…Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Expectation works in mysterious ways—and totally unconsciously.
Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else.
In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.
These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
When you have a strongly held belief, don’t you think it’s important to express that belief accurately?
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It’s the most important thing that happens, and it’s the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don’t have the right to abandon him just because he’s inconvenient or has trouble in school.
They want to see their expectation… Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it…
Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.
Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.
His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success–or the most to lose from failure.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
Readers probably haven’t heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.