We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner.

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]