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

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.

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

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

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

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

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