The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

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.

I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.

Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.