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.

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?

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

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.

Take every moment as a gift of life to enjoy. Stress will melt away to fill your heart with gratitude.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.