Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

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

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

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

To go faster you must slow down.