You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

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.

I feel so glad to be alive!

I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.