One of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.
True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever know. The real world doesn't roil with as many crazed artists, ps...
It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evol...
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
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...
Free speech should be viewed as sacred and inviolable not simply for its own sake, but for utterly pragmatic reasons. Only through an active, vibrant, noisy ferment of criticism can blunders be discov...
All facts are created equal.
A species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.
Yes, but all that’s needed is to break reciprocity, he answered. By controlling information, making sure it flows one way. Take over the databases. Trump up panic situations, so the public will suppor...
The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants.
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.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
The towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.
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.
We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators.
Though his book vigorously promotes strong privacy, Miller notes that people routinely trade personal information for convenience or a few dollars of savings, even offering names of friends and famili...
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.