The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

What is one common thing every one craves for? It is love... Love others unconditionally, honestly and truthfully. When you fill your being with love, you make yourself healthier and happier.

It’s great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

It's going to mean four or five justices, super liberal, placed on the Supreme Court. Our country will never, ever be the same.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

False as the fowler's artful snare.