When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.