The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.

Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?

Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’