When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

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.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.