There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless.
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that