When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.

My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.