Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.