Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.