Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.