Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

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.

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.

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.