“The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.”

“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line to adjust to the demands of differen...”

“Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much da...”

“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were b...”

“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”

“Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lur...”

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.”

“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are comple...”

“The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.”

“Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”