The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

And when the world shall listenAnd when the world shall seeAnd when the world remembersThat world shall cease to be.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way—each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.