If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

You never know what will save you.

If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

I'm not one of those Star Wars guys that has seen [my favorite movie] 97 times.

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts