One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

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

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.