Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?