Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.