“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficie...”

“The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.”

“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”

“Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.”

“Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.”

“In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply."The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "Wh...”

“Do we ever get slow rain?”

“Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast.”