If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

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.

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.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

The burden is on the sane.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

The eye of prudence may never shut.

To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.