"I feel a little whirl of dislocation—the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected."

“The buzz about Google these days is that it’s like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably on the decline. Both are superpowers with unmatched resources, but both are faced with fast-growing rivals, and both will eventually be eclipsed. For America, that rival is China; for Google, it’s Facebook...But here’s the difference: staring down the inevitable, American pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.”

“He has the strangest expression on his face—the emotive equivalent of 404”

“Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”

“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.”