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.

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.

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

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

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.

We dare travel on unknown path.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

We were together. I forget the rest.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .