We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the kid in one arm against the heart, so that's the left, and with the right arm they would throw. And it turns out you cannot make that calculation in real time. You have to have an algorithm set up. So these brain mechanisms evolved in order to do that, and when they evolved, the thing is that where there is a useful capability it often adapts to places it wasn't evolved for.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.