Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

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

There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

All you have to do is mate.