Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

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

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

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

Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.