My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school -- to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.