The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

Every new day is a divine order.

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.