The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

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.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?""Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.

Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

We were just looking at maps.