We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.