Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.'

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.