It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.