You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

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.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

The more I read, the less I know.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.

We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.