Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

The Bible is God's vision bank where you can withdraw raw materials to design your destiny.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.