“My mom’s a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I’m just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.”

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that’s relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Data can actually make us more human.

I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

What’s clear – and exciting – is that communication for social change is growing.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.