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

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

The Lord lit my life

If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.