Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

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.

Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

The only possible paradises are those we have lost