[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.