A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

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

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

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

The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

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.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.