- The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources.
- The biggest challenge is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole. It's rather like the play The Little Shop of Horrors where a man-eating plant is initially fed small amounts, but then its voracious appetite sends it into a downward spiral swallowing up anyone that gets in its way.
- As with most 'paradoxes,' it is not that our intuition is necessarily bad, but that our intuition has been badly informed
- In a healthy democracy, when a party wins by a small margin, instead of name-calling the 'dumb' voters of the opposition, we should be celebrating the fact that the opposing voters preserved the integrity of democracy
- In many committee meetings, in today's big organizations, there is a trend towards the idea that decisions must be unanimous. A wise committee should accept that difference of opinion and simply record there was a disagreement. The recording of the disagreement is not a negative, but a positive that demonstrates that a systemic bias is less likely.
- Lateness is a problem caused by everyone else inconsiderately arriving before you.
- The present is an illusory state between immediate past and immediate future.
- Faith is not as irritating as doubt.
- Polygamy is an act of supreme sacrifice where a man risks his life to more than one mother-in-law.
- That approach is not audacious enough for me. Progress needs audacity.
- Sometimes there is a 'magical' (I would say coincidental) resonance between mathematics and nature. But more often, some very simple and beautiful processes in nature are described only by very ugly cumbersome equations
- An agnostic is one who's extreme skepticism even keeps them from being an atheist.
- Humans are a minor bipedal life form extant on a squalid little planet named Earth, in a backwater little-known galaxy; they are also known as 'Earthlings'. Humans are characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-entitlement, display a collective form of narcissistic personality disorder, and are generally regarded as the rednecks of the universe. Their problems appear to stem from a disingenuous form of business transaction they call 'land ownership.'
- Atheism is one's God-given right to not believe.
- Feminism is complaining about the male representation of God, whilst overlooking the male representation of the devil. This selectivity extends to altering moot words such as 'chairman' and 'mankind', whilst rather cunningly retaining 'henchman' and 'manslaughter'.
- Cynicism is the fine art of expressing the truth without its pants on.
- A mathematical proof is the demonstration that a proposition is correct with a level of certainty that at least two mathematicians somewhere in the world understand it.
- An optimist is one who doesn't have the patience to worry.
- A nuclear power station is an economical way of creating a nuclear weapons infrastructure, at the expense of uneconomical electricity for the masses.
- An illegal immigrant is a hapless foreigner who peacefully enters a country with the noble purpose of propping up its economy, by performing all the jobs that local inhabitants refuse to do, thereby sacrificing himself for the greater good; as opposed to a blood thirsty foreign warlord who rapes, pillages, and dominates a country, who with his descendants then gets disingenuously elevated to 'ruling class' status.
- A plastic surgeon is a modern high-priest of vanity who offers redemption via a scalpel blade.
- Clothing is a means to allow nakedness at one's choosing.
- Conflict of interest is an ingenious mechanism for reluctantly forfeiting time consuming professional duties, avoiding committee meetings, and dodging jury service
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