The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

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

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.