I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort.