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

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.

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.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.