There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

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.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

I choose to love more and more every day.

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.

It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

I haven't talked to [Donald] Trump since he made his comments about [John] McCain being captured; now he doesn't respect military guys that get captured.

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.