And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.