The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.