Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

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

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

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