Creativity is an import-export business.

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.

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.