Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

All you have to do is mate.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'