Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

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.

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Joy is the best makeup.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!