We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

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

There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

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.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.