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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Look after your body and your body will look after you

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.