A surprisingly common tactic of philosophers is to solve their problem by denying that it exists: thus Parmenides on change, Berkeley on the external world, Dennett on qualia, or Rand on conflicts of interest. It works, if what you want is less correctness than renown.
The last one to leave won’t have to turn out the lights: the power will have failed long since.
We would all be incomparably better-educated if we had read the same books in the right order.
If you want to argue better, get better arguments.
The sole sacred duty of the critic is not to praise where praise is not due.
In normal times, the party offering the most extreme version of popular ideas natters pointlessly. In revolutionary times, it wins.
A networked world is a legible world, and a legible world is an unfree world. We all have social credit scores now.
There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are documentaries.
The Stages of Loss and Grief
1. People will understand you
2. People will understand your book
3. People will read your book
4. People will buy your book
Processing power is often said to be a poor substitute for understanding; in fact it is understanding that turns out to be the poor substitute for processing power.