Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

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

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

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

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

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

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.