In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.

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

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

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.