Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

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.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.