"Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the â€œthou shaltsâ€ and â€œthou shouldâ€, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing."

-- Terence McKenna

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“In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.”
“I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.”

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“I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.”
“Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.”
“Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.”
“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”

Source : Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, 2010.
“Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.”
“There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.”

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