Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

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.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended

You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

Real communication is impossible without listening.