My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.
Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success
Innovation is only innovation when it's sustainable.
MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually they dare to speak. My characters are not only hesitant; they are ambivalent about which way their libido flows: toward men or women? They are fluid in their sexuality, and this ambivalence says more about how we think about sex today than, say, Tinder. And this is a truly modern idea: Most of us don't know who we are sexually.
When I get nervous, I get word vomit.