Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

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.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Happiness does not come from receiving

Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.