Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.