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

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.

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.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.

Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.