I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

History is no criminal court

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.