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We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.