Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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.

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.

Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings.

That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggestfear we have

Embrace change and practice flexibility. It will make you more agile in adapting to new people and situations.

We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

Evil tongues never want a whet.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.