Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

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

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

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.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.