Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.

You say you are a poet of law

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Maybe in the future when life sees that we are ready for love we will meet up or stumble upon each other and it will ignite the light inside of us that we are craving right now.

My teachings are my life.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins.