The audience is a big part of the show.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.

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