At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

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

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

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.