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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
-Noam Chomsky

At times Truth blazes so bright that we see it clear as day. But then nature and habit draw a veil over our minds, and we return again to darkness. We are like travelers who, in between each flash of lightning, still find themselves in the deepest black of night.
—Maimonides

"If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way."
- Mark Twain

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Stephen Colbert

"My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me" - William Gibson

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
-E. F. Schumacher

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will." (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
-Arthur Schopenhauer

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
-George Orwell

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
-Noam Chomsky

"I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature."
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The computer is such a powerful instrument that it defines, after a while, what is possible for you. And what is possible is within the computer’s capacity. And while it seems in the beginning like this incredibly gifted and talented servant actually has a very limited intelligence — the brain is so much vaster than the computer. But, the computer is very insistent about what it’s good at, and before you know it — it’s like being with somebody who has bad habits, you sort of fall into the bad habits — and it begins to dominate the way you think about what is possible. … [Counter this] by doing things that are uncomfortable for it to do.
-Milton Glaser