There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.