Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

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.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.