As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.