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

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

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

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.