The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

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.

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

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

Stop being too hard on yourself. Countless of people all around the world would love to have your life just as it currently is.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.