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.

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.

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.

[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.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

You should never reveal your true age.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.