Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

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.

Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person