What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

I am really, really tired.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.