In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

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.

The Truth is true testimony of God.

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.