While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

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.

O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

My greatest ideas stem from running.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.