Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

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.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

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