What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Data can actually make us more human.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably encompassing even the remotest of hearts.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.