'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

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.

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.

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.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.