... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.