Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business