Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

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.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

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

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.