Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.