The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

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.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Blessed are they who can carryA smile on their faceThey are ones who have foundInner peace in life’s mace

Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.