When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

I am hungry at the most inappropriate times.

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.