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

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

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.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.