It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

We don't need secrecy.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.