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" Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. "

Howard Rheingold

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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "

" Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it. "

" Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. "

" Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about. "

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" We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. "

" It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. "

" Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure. "

" It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got. "

" Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them. "

" Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology. "

" I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. "

" What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? "

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" Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. "

" When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. "

" Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true. "

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" There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. "

" Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. "

" Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. "

" Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. "

" The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it. "

" The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. "

" A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. "

" Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention. "

" People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with. "

" Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. "