It's the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.

It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?

Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.

There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. Program management is...

{"Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity," writes Kate Brown.}

The subjects did not choose between things. They chose between descriptions of things.

The sense of identity as Citizen has been replaced by Consumer. The idea that government should serve the citizens like a waiter or concierge, rather than in a 'collective good' sense.

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't. Which brought us to the fifth risk.

The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his...

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...{it is} quite likely that the fate of entire...

In 1980 only 23 percent of state pension money had been invested in the stock market; by 2008 the number had risen to 60 percent.

Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions

Moore's law came with a social corollary: high-tech could not remain high-tech for long.

How many people can pick up a book and find an instruction manual for their life?

Psychologists in the late 1940s had detected, or claimed to have detected, that the mind had the capacity to defend itself from what it apparently did not want to perceive.

In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.

The general idea was to sell their software first to rich technophiles and then, gradually, infiltrate the minds of the middle-class owners of suburban tract houses.