War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.
Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
