Information is alienated experience.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.