“It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers ar...”

“Memory has always been social. Now were using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”

“Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing whats going on in the lives of other people what theyre thinking about, what theyre doing, what theyre looking at by paying attention to the small s...”

“As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; theyre just, well, social people.”

“The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character wil...”

“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.”

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

“Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.”

“As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“He laid his head on Reid's shoulder and shut his eyes, buoyed toward sleep by the affectionate comb of fingers through his hair. He could stay just so, and be content for all his days.”

“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.”

“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.”