On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture – academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a...

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I’ve spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

On private transactions, I’ll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

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.