Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.