The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.