We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.