The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.