I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.