To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.