There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

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.

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

Remember how to breathe, how to live...please!!

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.