“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.”

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.

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

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.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.