What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now--knowing everything between uswill come to an end.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.