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

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.

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.

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

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

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.