Running for president is the new selfie.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

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

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

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.