The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

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.

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.