Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.