Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.