The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.