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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.