You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it helps the environment, it helps people, but it doesn't alienate us and it doesn't cause our organizations to fall apart by centrifugal force.

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

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.