The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

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.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

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