If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

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.

Future is predestined and unchangeable.

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.