We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?

Comedy is allied to justice.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.