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

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

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

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

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.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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