We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.