David Gelernter:

People ask where the Web is going; it's going nowhere. The Web was a brilliant first shot at making the Internet usable, but it backed the wrong horse. It chose space over time.

Albert Einstein:

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Marcia Bjornerud:

This planet is one mysterious peach.

James Gleick:

Some people say vast confusion like it's a bad thing.

Frans de Waal:

We keep assuming that there is a point at which we became human. This is about as unlikely as there being a precise wavelength at which the color spectrum turns from orange into red.

Amanda Petrusich:

American inertia moves in a single direction. There is only one way to ride off into a sunset.

From "Nihilistic Password Security Questions", by Soheil Rezayazdi:

On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?

Rahul Kanakia:

When you go to sleep, you hear your neighbour arguing with his wife through the wall. He wants her to become a dancer, and she wants to sleep for a thousand centuries. You wish you had someone to argue with.

You live on a planet that is covered by a city, and the city has nine trillion inhabitants, and if you repeatedly bump into one of them, then you know that the city has chosen for you.

This is a mystical belief. The city bureaucrats insist that they do no choosing. They insist that the world is cruel and meaningless, and they say the only order is that which arises from a rigidly logical mind.

A-way, A-way, A-way. Some say the world will go on and on, extending into the foreverness, but you don't believe it.

In the meantime, you know that you are lonely.