Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life

we are not born to be PERFECT!but to be TRUE !

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!

There is no wrong way to have a body.

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.