“You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physica...”

“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?”

“The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever hap...”

“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing! Gavin broke in. How does that concept work out for you people, here in Brazil?You dont know about steampunk? shouted Xavier, dubiously.Well, I dont ...”

“Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Eve...”

“If you dont have a sense of wonder its like youre dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing thats basically a conjurers trick, or a...”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Behind every Plagiarism there is Google”

“My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, w...”

“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I dont need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.”

“I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together...”

“There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.”

“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. ...”