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.

Science is all metaphor.

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.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy...

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.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

The naval station’s location means the military can base more personnel there and devote more resources to training and supervision.

It’s also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who’s going to do what and how we’re going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

Now that it’s officially summer, here’s my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

The dollar performs internationally all three functions of money, as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a standard of value.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of course, develop and become more varied.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Of course, not everybody’s willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, – if the experiments don’t work, then it means it’s...

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

The universe is an intelligence test.

The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren’t told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in...

But we shouldn’t be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn’t think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

This means that the U.S. can pursue different interrogation policies in each location. In fact, Abu Ghraib highlights the benefits of Guantanamo.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature’s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is...

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

In corn, I think I’ve found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald’s meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is...