Technology improves the quality of our phone calls, not that of our conversations.

Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

Some of our beliefs will seem ridiculous in a hundred years’ time. Some already seemed so a thousand years ago.

When taken in the right direction, even a step that is only half a centimeter long is progress.

A huge portion of what the civilized know more than the primitive is about the unnatural world.

Instead of days like Valentine’s Day, we ought to have days such as the day on which we would commemorate those ancestors of ours from whose deaths we have learned, for example, that something is not safe for us to eat.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.