A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)