Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation. - John Allen Paulos

Our two most basic political ideals—liberty and equality—are, in their purest forms, incompatible. Complete liberty results in inequality, and mandatory equality leads to a loss of liberty.

Correlation and causation are two quite different words, and the innumerate are more prone to mistake them than most.

For the record, natural selection is a highly nonrandom process that acts on the genetic variation produced by random mutation and genetic drift and results in those organisms with more adaptive traits differentially surviving and reproducing.