We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.