Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.