I just want to live in peace and quiet.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.
Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. . . With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?