Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.