Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Shigure: *pokes Rit in the side* JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL! <3 Rit: *falls*

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don't matter.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.