Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement

There’s a psychological phenomenon called ‘reactance,’ that means when people believe that their choices are being limited or they’re going to have to engage in costly behaviors, they’re likely to push back against that and the message can backfire.

Isogou! (Hurry on!) - Tekken 6 onwards (kiai; Gigabyte Hammer/Logic Bomb/Rocket Punch/Dynamic Range/Ground Rocket Punch/Shredding Sky Punch)

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

To establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their heart's content.

Cretins are never elegant. Intelligent people, on the other hand, even with two rags on, dress with logic, so they are always elegant.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't have died when he was dead, for when he was dead he had already died. Therefore, Socrates never died.