Michael ShermerThinkers

The Cult is not something anyone ever really joins. What they join is a group that becomes a cult - they join thinking they will do good, help the world, lead to self-improvement.

Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.