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

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

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.

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.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.