There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.