No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.
Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.
The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.
It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
