I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade."

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.