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

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

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

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

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.

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