If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.