Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.