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.

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

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

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

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

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