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

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.

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.

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

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Every step gets him closer to greatness...or disaster.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

When we judge others we leave no room to love them.

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.