We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

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.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

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.