When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

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

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

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.