A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

Everybody has a different Internet.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.