"The internet is the most effective means of giving stuff away for free that humanity has ever devised. Actually makin…"

"We are more connected in more ways to more people than we ever have been at any point in human history. This is chang…"

": we tend to think of them as siblings, perhaps even as twins, as parts of stem (for “science, technology, engineerin…"

"Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science."

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"