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

Running for president is the new selfie.

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

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

We choose mania over boredom every time.

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.

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