“The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.”

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.

While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

Im really good at writing almost hits.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.

All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.

My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,