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.

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.

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.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.