Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

You ought to give thanks to the Lord.

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.