"As far as we know causality is like clockwork. Sequential clockwork systems we understand; nonlinear web systems are unadulterated myteries. The latter drown in their self-made paradoxical logic. A causes B. B causes A. Swarm systems are oceans of intersecting logic: A indirectly causes everything else and everything else indirectly causes A. I call this latteral or horizontal causality. The credit for the true cause ( or more precisely the true proportional mix of causes) will spread horizontally through the web until the trigger of a particular event is essentially unknowable. Stuff happens."

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another to live for me."

"The root question of collective morality is ridiculously simple to phrase.  Either the people wish to make their own decisions, trusting they have the common sense to do so, or they wish to be controlled by the decisions of others.  Collective morality, once entrenched, is a cyclic argument, and it is tantamount to selling your soul for the ease of non-thinking.  The essence of freedom is contained in the individual's exercise of personal judgement, and once that bastion is surrendered, all liberty will soon disappear.  Ultimate authority, in any system, regardless of its name, can bring about collapse and explosion."

"Trust in families, neighbohoods and individuals to make sense of the important question, "What is education for?"  If some of them answer differently than you might prefer, that's really not your business, and it shouldn't be your problem.  Our type of schooling has deliberately concealed that such a question must be framed and not taken for granted if anything beyond a mockery of democracy is to be nurtured.  It is illegitimate to have an expert answer that question for you.  It was our trust in our potential that helped lay down our foundations back in the colonial period, and I feel certain that the structure we built still houses powerful potential.  Let's use it, and create a truly American solution to the great school nightmare."