Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings have the capacity to develop scientific knowledge, it must be a very limited capacity because it is only done in very narrow and specific domains.

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.