Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

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.

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

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.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Character is very much a matter of health.

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

Something is always happening somewhere.

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.