“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.”

“I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.”

“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.”

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

“We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.”

“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait ...”

“At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it i...”

“So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me."Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie.""I see," she said. "Well, I'd think that would get boring, everyone having the samename."I thought about thi...”

“I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.”

“Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone”