I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when hes in his car? I hate that. – Susan Orlean
Its hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasnt yet been duplicated by technology. – Paul Graham
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. – Konrad Lorenz