Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

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

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

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.

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.