Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

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 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.

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

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.