We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

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 dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

I don't want to have children...I want to date them!

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.