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

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.

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.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow." - W.J. Dlor

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.