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

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.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

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

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

All you have to do is mate.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.