When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.