For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.