With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.