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.

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.

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.

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You, " I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.

To err is human to forgive divine.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.