People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.