There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

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.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Apparently it takes, like, forty-seven muscles to frown. Flippin' the bird' s a hell of a lot easier.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

I have a good sense of direction.

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.