I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Boston is a state of mind.

God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.