If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So too the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Yet in this global economy no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

The speed of communication the speed of information transfer the cheapness of communication the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character would you slow down? Or speed up?

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001 and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.