We already have our phones, but other wearables, and those technologies are going to want to know when you're deciding things and then offer some kind of input subtle or less so on that moment.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

Have faith in your own instinct and your own truth.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.