I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

I am an unpredictable journey.

The ideas dictate everything.

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.