Quotes from George Takei

cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I've never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.

Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.

Then there's also Batman, who seems to have survived both Adam West and Christian Bale, but whose questionable relationship to the Boy Wonder left plenty of room for hilarious homoerotic undertones.

If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.

Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators... but they don't carry it the way the victims do.

Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

The media is starting to understand that people will "buy" what they want to hear. That explains the growing popularity of MSNBC among liberals and FOX News among conservatives. They are the "Infonewtials" of the modern era.

If Grumpy Cat could bring herself to actually support something, it should be a no-brainer for mere humans.

In the networked world, there are fewer Eleanor Rigbys to sing about, for

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon.

Each of us bears a responsibility to reject hate, whatever its form, whatever its justification.

Unfortunately, "winning" generally took a bit of a beating when a certain douchebag began using it as his favorite hashtag on Twitter after being fired from his hit television show.

The overly health-conscious among us have tried to rain on the bacon parade by promoting low fat (and low flavor) options, such as turkey bacon. Turkey bacon. It's like saying "shoot" instead of "shit." It just doesn't quite carry the moment.

In the networked world, there are fewer Eleanor Rigbys to sing about, for even the loneliest among us can venture out with relative anonymity and find solace in the comfort of others' lives, particularly if those lives appear equally mundane. By the way, if you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

Or perhaps Siri's programmers included parents who anticipated their children's unauthorized use of their mobile devices—trust me, a four year old can use an iPhone better than most adults):

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Good grief. If we can't laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

we will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.

I can't help but postulate that there is something oddly comforting in imagining an end we share together, rather than alone, and that this feeds our mutual obsession with Doomsday. The apocalypse that wipes out 99.99% of us doesn't discriminate by race, class, or geography. As it turns out, everyone's brains do in fact taste the same.

But as Stephen Fry has so eloquently noted, all great atrocities and genocides first begin with marginalizing then dehumanizing a specific group of people, whether Jewish, Gypsy or Rwandan.