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.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

Running for president is the new selfie.