Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

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.