In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

We are always the same age inside.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.