More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future

What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.