Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Possibility is not a facet of opportunity. It's one of fate. And I've never been one to fear destiny.

Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.