The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

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.

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.

Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.