They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.