In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Running for president is the new selfie.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

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

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

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.