I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.
A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman
Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University
The most ancient parts of truth. . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.