People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.