It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.