There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.