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.

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.

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.'

They have a choice to hurt us but we have a choice to be free from pain...

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.