Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life, no but it changed the way I Experience life.

Hey, Jimmy.”“Yeah.”“You ever think about how long we’re going to live?”“No, ” he says. “Not really.”“Well, why not?”“I dunno. Guess I’m too busy livin’ it to think about it.

They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone. " "And yet, I connect them." "You do.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

More and more of our imports are coming from overseas

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?