He was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.
Bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.
You just don't have faith! Frank repeated.Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
With practice one could dodge the past almost entirely.
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
So you see systems of thought and religion coming out of the kinds of societies that invented them. The means by which people feed themselves determine how they think and what they believe. Agricultur...
So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this global b...
Sheer dumb sentience.
If you’re in Congress, don’t you have to be there sometimes?
History is humankind trying to get a grip.
But things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.
Not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It
A postcarbon landscape, each
To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,
They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. Infinite possibility was going to collapse, in the act of choosing, to the single world line of hist...
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.