- Saul Alinsky on sociology
- Dennis Altman anti-gay bigotry: origins and fighting it
- James Baldwin racism
- Jacques Barzun on significance and difficulty
- Gregory Bateson on the social "sciences"
- Gregory and Mary Bateson syllogism of metaphor
- Alison Bechdel on delayed gay teenage years
- Daniel Bell what history should focus on
- H. E. Booker on Bachelors and Doctors degrees
- Jorge Luis Borges on aging
- Samuel Butler on prayer
- Jorge Castañeda U.S. / Mexico relations
- Noam Chomsky domino theory; U.S. media
- Arthur C. Clarke Clarke's Laws
- Harvey Cox on specialization
- Steve Cuno on quarantine economy
- Samuel R. (Chip) Delany mainstream fiction vs. SF; civilization's built-in enemies
- Annie Dillard profligate nature
- Cory Doctorow on non-voters
- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Language is fossil poetry."
- Timothy Ferris on blind belief vs. evidence and science
- R. Buckminster Fuller on genius
- Gandhi ~ be the change...
- Tim Gowers on collaboration
- G. H. Hardy science is said to be useful if ...
- Eric Hoffer the learners vs. the learned
- Aldous Huxley channeling power into learning
- Ivan Illich on cars
- Molly Ivins on undeserving rich
- Gary Kasparov on propaganda
- Christina Anne Knight defining religion
- Donald E. Knuth on teaching computers
- Thomas Kuhn on reading apparent absurdities
- Timothy Leary on age
- Ursula LeGuin secret desires; endless growth; "I don't believe in evolution, I accept it."
- Ursula LeGuin on suicide
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on determinism / free will
- Robert T. Lundy logic, reason, confusion, fear
- Scott McNealy zero privacy
- HarveyMilk coming out
- Thomas Paine
- Robert Pastor U.S. / Mexico relations
- Thomas Piketty on non-voters
- Cecil Rhodes on the lottery of life
- Richard Rorty on worship and on social goals
- Richard Rorty objectivity; physics vs. psychology
- Richard Rorty personhood, awareness, civil rights
- Jane Rule inventing heaven and hell
- Joanna Russ "Women ought to run things ... "
- Martha Shelley having to keep being gay secret
- Michael Shermer "overidentify patterns and causation"
- Baruch Spinoza
- Neal Stephenson on agreeing on facts
- Adlai Stevenson "That's not enough..."
- Jonathan Symons anti-gay bigotry: origins and fighting it
- William Irwin Thompson on entertainment
- William Irwin Thompson on sociology
- William Irwin Thompson on political virtual reality
- William Irwin Thompson on just war
- Mark Twain on bad habits
- Gore Vidal "do as I advise"
- Tim Wu on economic concentration
- William Butler Yeats fed the heart on fantasies
