It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects!

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.