The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.