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.

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.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.