Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.

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.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.