Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

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

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

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.

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.