Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.