The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.