It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.Seth Shostak
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.Linus Torvalds
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.Bertrand Russell