It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.