The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.