You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

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.

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.

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

I have learned many things in this life:)

It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.