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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice.