Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.