When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you’re not working.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at...

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

The other neat thing about these quantum computers is that they’re also storing a bit of information on every available degree of freedom.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That’s a very limited view of human sexuality, and it isn’t going to work for women.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the...

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can’t talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

When Wal-Mart and McDonald’s start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.

There’s a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of...

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

What this means is that we shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

High-quality food is better for your health.

So you can be pretty sure that central banks around the world will not start dumping dollars on the market in order to buy euros.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

I went through the ’70s and ’80s saying, I’m a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said that, no one asked me another thing.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

To the extent that the United States has, I don’t like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don’t think that’s based on to any significant degree on the fact...

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can’t emphasize enough lubrication.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest – the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Today we have so much more flow of private capital that most international imbalances are financed that way, by private capital movements.