Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

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.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!

Where there is a will, there is a way.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.