The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.