“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

“We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide”

“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.”

“I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.”

“They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”