Reality is mathematical, as long as you understand that uncertainty and contingency can be mathematically described, without them becoming any more certain.
People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.
People didn’t understand that true intimacy did not consist of sexual intercourse, which could be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consisted of talking for hours about...
Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.
Maybe fear and want never went away. We are more than food and drink and shelter. It seems like those should be the crucial determinants, but many a well-fed citizen is filled with rage and fear. They...
History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.
Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of...
Freedom in an injust system is no freedom at all.
Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.
Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.
Becoming a shaman is a fate that can strike anyone. Even you.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think whe...
The way bubbles work is structurally identical to Ponzi schemes—what a coincidence!—and indeed it’s another amazing coincidence how much the entire capitalist economy resembles in its basic structure...
First a wind ensemble playing a transcription of the Appassionata piano sonata; then Beethoven’s opus 134, which was his own transcription for two pianos of his Grosse Fugue for string quartet, opus 1...
Ease of representation. It’s always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.
You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?
What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually beg...
Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored som...