Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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.

God will witness about every one of us

The spirit gives life.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.