It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.