"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."