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

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.