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

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.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

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.