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

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

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.