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.

[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.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Sometimes we realize that we are like facebook, people using us for themselves, meeting each other via us, all credit going to the owner, even no one talking about us, just using US .

If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.