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

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.