We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.