What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.