Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.