Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

With every record, there's something you realize about it after the process is done. And you know that's almost always the case.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.