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.

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.

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.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.

You know what the secret to a happy life is?""No regrets. Just live in the moment.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you, " and then treat them that way? (author unknown)

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.