A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

He’d never accept the deal. “Look folks. This deal, this ‘wager’ as they call it: it’s a disaster. Pathetic Pascal, that’s what I call him. I can get a much better deal from god. Believe me. I know god. An eternity of infinite bliss sounds nice but who’s gonna pay for it? I’ll make god pay for it.”

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a heron eating a frog - forever

Socratic dialogues are just the ancient form of podcasts