People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

I used to share my everyday life on the first social media platforms, and I had a pretty big following.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.