If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

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

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

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

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

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.