Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue. To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true.

Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything.

These kinds of features will be rolled out in additional modules.

They're a big problem. We have had an increase in kills in the last year.

Don't let your ATM card out of your sight.

We were hoping we would both be able to win one. And that's how it turned out.

Plugging words into a browser window isn't research: it's asking questions of programmable machines that themselves cannot actually understand human beings.

It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true. All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.

Online debates become personal, emotional, and irresolvable almost as soon as they begin.

An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.