[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.

You’re too old for fairy tales, ” Baasen said.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

What are you going to do with your freedom?

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.