“I am who I am and that’s all that I am… I’m Popeye the Sailorman.”

“Hail to arithmetic and logic but… if we want to thrive IRL, we’ll need something much stronger. We’ll need recursion!”

“A large body of criticism has grown up around the ‘Head of the pre-Socratics’…and almost all of it is certainly wrong!”

What if Jesus is not your cup of tea? There’s an old hymn that goes, “Jesus is just all right with me.” But what if he’s not all right with you?”

“Events…have repercussions; but whether the events themselves are good, bad, or indifferent, the repercussions may be unaccountably good.”

“And this is good old Boston, the home of the bean and the cod, where the Lowells talk only to Cabots and the Cabots talk only to God.”

“The Present is…a series of concentric circles, with its axis perpendicular to linear spacetime…”

Piraha has no words for numerals (1, 2, 3) or for colors (red, green, blue).

“And so it is that in some cultures even today, elephants are considered sacred.”

“God’s unassuming manner gives us a model for human consciousness.”

“Why do our Bots want to kill us and how can we change their minds?”

“We’ve come a long way, baby! From little less than angels we have been reduced to little more than bacteria.”