The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

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.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.