“The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl--not even one made f...”

“Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.”

“Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”

“Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the ...”

“Its not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, its that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.”

“Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?""Yes. They're prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government ...”

“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival ...”

“You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.”

“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovators Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it ra...”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”

“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple unde...”

“Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Eve...”

“Having a title only doesnt make one a leader; talented people without a title dont follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.”