Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

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.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.