In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that’s the case, we may choose not to risk.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.