It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I think social media has a lot of negative impact and negative effects. These are fairly extreme and horrifying and really gruesome.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.

I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.