The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

We need to take a step back, and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

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 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.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.