We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

We left dents on each other. Mine was in her heart, and hers was on my car.

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

We worship education but hate learning.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

I am a very talented belcher. Very deep and bassy.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.