There's no victory-condition for being human.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

e-Commerce makes it easy to spend money. Netiquette makes you aware hidden fees. NetworkEtiquette.net

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid, " She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

We embed social media inside our processes. Let's look at our processes and see how we can enhance them with social.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.