The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

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.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

The process of nature cannot be evil.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.