The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

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.

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.