Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.