Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.