Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.