Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

At some point, Moore’s law will break down.

Merely by existing and evolving in time – by existing – any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here’s one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds – particularly if it sounds bad – recognize the pattern of defamation.

I mean, we’re really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings...

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

If we all talked honestly about what’s really happening in our sex lives, we’d realise that we’re all normal because it’s going to be about diversity.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

The point of the essay is to change things.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it’s not the other way around.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The characters in Sex and the City were all scrambling for a man-I don’t call that a good message for women. Couldn’t just one of them say Look, I prefer to masturbate than go out...

It’s our destiny to explore. It’s our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Anyway, in my writing I’ve always been interested in finding places to stand, and I’ve found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I’m writing about.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

The dollar is the main private currency for investment purposes, for transactions purposes, as a vehicle currency as it’s called.

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we’re sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we’d be proud, we wouldn’t have shame, we wouldn’t have sexual guilt.

We all like stories that make us cry. It’s so nice to feel sad when you’ve nothing in particular to feel sad about.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment’s deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Science is all metaphor.

The clitoris is ignored. Our mothers weren’t told and their mothers’ mothers weren’t told.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.