A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

If you listen to music every day, you will strengthen your soul.

The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.

I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.