Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.