Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

This could only happen in a technical college.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.