Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

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.

We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds

Race and class were a kind of destiny

Rejoice in the colours…

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

If you kill me, I promise you - you will never take me alive.