Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.