See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Not everyone will appreciate the beauty of their surroundings like you do. Spend time with those that do.

The art of leaving and the art of loving are not the same.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.