The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

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.

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.

I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.

My buildings are more famous than me.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.