It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

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

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

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.