The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.