What we need is equality without conformity.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.