À l’intérieur, il se sentait un creux immense et douloureux, comme s’il avait eu le cœur pris dans un étau de glace. Rien ne semblait pouvoir bouger en lui, au risque de briser quelque chose de chance...
How can we set up a system which encourages individuals to strive and excel, and yet which shows some compassion to the weak, and weeds out madmen and tyrants?
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
That’s not how human psychology works. No, we tend to do lots of things without knowing why. We need excuses, though, so we rationalize! If an obvious reason for our behavior isn’t readily available,...
Again, how will we keep them loyal? What measures can ensure our machines stay true to us? Once artificial intelligence matches our own, won’t they then design even better ai minds? Then better still,...
The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
The towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.
Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
New astronomy also had to adjust to the idea that what their senses told them everyday was untrue – that the world did not revolve around them alone.
Look. Studies show FEAR sets attitudes/tolerance to change. Fearful people reject foreign, alien, strange. Circle wagons. Pull in horizons. Horizons of time. Of tolerance. Of risk. Of Dreams.
In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.
Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman
It was called ‘the Big Lie’ technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you’re talking about—as if you’re citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory...
If we humans annihilate ourselves, mammalian genes are rich enough to replace us with another, maybe wiser race within a few million years. Perhaps descendants of coyotes or raccoons, creatures too ad...
Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any "greates...
Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
One of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.
There were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools of oppression.
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
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