Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

We don’t deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact

Did you forget who I am? Finding out the lies of men is my specialty." -Vashti

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.