All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.