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.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

To go faster you must slow down.

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.

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.

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