I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don't find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like buggy whips and buggies.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.