I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

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.

It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.