The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.