(Sam) Jolyon

“Keep your vocabulary as wide as you can. I have some difficulty with the word ‘cool’, and I’m not too bothered about the word ‘awesome’. People like me are looking to people like you guys of the next generation to deal with this shit. It’s like seeing a rock guitarist pick up a Fender Stratocaster and hold it the wrong way.”
― Terry Pratchett

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“There is a whole culture in the United States—a growing one, it seems—that consciously walls out facts it doesn’t want to know. These facts cluster together: evolution by natural selection; climate change; our society’s growing recognition of equal rights for all persons; the citizen’s responsibilities to the citizenry; the damage humans have done to natural systems and our duty to try to heal them.”
― Thomas McNamee, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story