There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people could be an electoral base to keep them in power.