When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.