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

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.

To go faster you must slow down.

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

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

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.