There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

A magic effect is never completely finished.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

I want to see a Jew in the White house.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.