The Internet is corporations all the way down.

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.

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.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

You are worth fighting for.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

...if you spent all your time being protected, you never got to find out anything new.

These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The great biographers take excessive liberties in denigrating his person, and, in doing so, they make it difficult to comprehend

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.