When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.