Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.