When we change the way we communicate, we change society

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?

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.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust.

Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

I wanted to help women and their families.