It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

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.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Trust and faith have left you.” “He will help guide you back to them.” “Blessings to you on your journey.

There are no stressful jobs, but there are stressful managers

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").