I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.

I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.