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.

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

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

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.