The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.