Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God’s plan and purposes for your life.

This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.