The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One!

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

Memories are powerful that way. They can bring back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is