Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Control is the source of strategic power.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.