When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

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.

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

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.

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.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.