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.

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

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.

The habit of wishing is only for those who aren't hungry enough for success.

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

just in case" is the curse of packing

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.