I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.

Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.

You need to imagine your gift, the thing you can bring to this world. There's so many creative ways to plug in, connect, engage and contribute. You can be really creative about it. In previous generations, it was so much more cookie-cutter. I don't think that's the case anymore. My career has been so not normal.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.