Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.