If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.