I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.
. . . one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.
The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.
I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e. g. , students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.