Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

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.

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. I don't deal there. I have no businesses there. I have no loans from Russia.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.