Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.