The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

You are in a maze of twisty menu configuration languages, all alike

The antidote for misuse of freedom of speech is more freedom of speech

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

...it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for.

Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Encrypting transactions on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.

I believe there is a divine engineer...that's why we have giraffes, hippopotami and the clap.

Sometimes your management will instruct you to do something that you know to be mistaken. Your obligation is to do what's right, trusting that your management will ultimately figure out their mistake. By the way -- you'd better be right.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Darn these computers, they're so naughty and complex!

I'm a mystical humanist with naturalistic leanings and receptivity to disclosure of the divine. I meander comfortably amid the Confucian-Taoist motifs and stories of my heritage. My religious vision is tempered by existentialism, grounded in earth-centered spiritualities, aligned with the wisdom of Western tradition, especially Judeo-Christian, and bathed in trustful agnosticism.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

Do or do not. There is no try.

The waking world is judged more real because it can thus contain the dreaming world; the dreaming world is judged less real because it cannot contain the waking one. For the same reason I am certain that in passing from the scientific points of view to the theological, I have passed from dream to waking. ...

Too many packets
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I am so tired

If I were meta-agnostic, I'd be confused over whether I'm agnostic or not but I'm not quite sure if I feel that way; hence I must be meta-metagagnostic (I guess).

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from coincidence.

We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Don't wait for others to do the right thing. You first.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.