It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-inf….

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder..

Running for president is the new selfie..

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing..

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy..

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understateme….

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive..

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future..

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom..

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity..

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility..

We choose mania over boredom every time..

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too..

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of ….

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries..

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace..

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. I….

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily….

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to cha….

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gav….