Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

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.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

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.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.