A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

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.

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

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

And the dusk in my heartBecomes lightWhen youLook toward me…

My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.

DON'T BE A FOLLOWER, NOR TRY TO BE A BORROWER, MEND UR WAY, EVEN IT TAKE A DAY, IF U WISH TO BE A WINNER, UR DREAMS SHOULD BE BIGGER.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.