The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

The command to be free is a double bind

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

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.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness