These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn’t destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thor...
These Americans played with fire. Hydrogen bombs, megapower lasers, killer drones, shrunken micro-people…Americans were demon-raisers. Americans awakened technological demons they couldn’t control, ye...
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly
The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.
The free marketeers will scream, but the fact is, free markets don’t provide safety. Only regulation does that. You want safe food, you better have inspectors. You want safe water, you better have an...
The fact that the biosphere responds unpredictably to our actions is not an argument for inaction. It is, however, a powerful argument for caution, and for adopting a tentative attitude toward all we...
Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere w...
Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.
She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn...
Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.
People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it.
Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,
Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there’s a McDonald’s on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish....
Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creerle. Entiendo cómo te sientes.
Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future.
Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way. Malcolm
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn’t know what he was talking about.
He’s an engineer. Wu’s the same. They’re both technicians. They don’t have intelligence. They have what I call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it...