The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

Science has taken away our religion.