I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel l...
Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bi...
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform...
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had...
what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.
I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.
It takes two to have a fight.
If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.
There has to be new words to explain new worlds.
A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
We are often harsher judges than God himself.