Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.