To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!