Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

Lift you your eyes, look to God, holy heavens.

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.