Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.