Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

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.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

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

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.