Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

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.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.