I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

The internet is not for sissies.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.