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

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.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.