One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

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.

You don’t need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth – anything extra. You don’t need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily.

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.