Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

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

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

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