In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.

The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.