If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there