Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

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.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.