As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

Community is like a big family.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.